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CVE-2020-8484 (GCVE-0-2020-8484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-29 01:58 – Updated: 2024-08-04 10:03
VLAI
Title
ABB System 800xA Inter process communication vulnerability - 800xA for DCI
Summary
Insufficient protection of the inter-process communication functions in ABB System 800xA for DCI (all published versions) enables an attacker authenticated on the local system to inject data, allowing reads and writes to the controllers or cause windows processes to crash.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ABB 800xA for DCI Affected: all versions
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