cve-2020-12517
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-17 22:43
Modified
2024-09-16 22:10
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
On Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control Devices versions before 2021.0 LTS an authenticated low privileged user could embed malicious Javascript code to gain admin rights when the admin user visits the vulnerable website (local privilege escalation).
References
info@cert.vde.comhttps://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2020-049Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2020-049Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Phoenix Contact AXC F 1152 (1151412) Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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   Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 (2404267) Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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   Phoenix Contact AXC F 3152 (1069208) Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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   Phoenix Contact RFC 4072S (1051328 Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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   Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 Starterkit (1046568) Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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   Phoenix Contact PLCnext Technology Starterkit (1188165) Version: unspecified   < 2021.0 LTS
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