CVE-2020-22722 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Rapid SCADA 5.8.0 on Windows operating systems. An attacker with local access can replace the legitimate ScadaAgentSvc.exe with a malicious executable, which will then run with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges upon system restart, granting full system control. This vulnerability has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a low attack complexity and significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rapidscada:rapid_scada:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.