CVE-2020-5594 (GCVE-0-2020-5594)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-23 07:35 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R, iQ-F, Q, L, and FX series CPU modules all versions contain a vulnerability that allows cleartext transmission of sensitive information between CPU modules and GX Works3 and/or GX Works2 via unspecified vectors.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/en/psirt/vulne… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/psirt/vulner… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU91424496/index.html | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | MELSEC iQ-R, iQ-F, Q, L, and FX series CPU modules |
Affected:
all versions
|
guessed |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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