CVE-2020-7580 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting numerous Siemens SIMATIC and SINAMICS products. A common component used by these applications calls a helper binary with SYSTEM privileges without quoting the call path, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), this vulnerability requires high privileges (PR:H) to exploit but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_automatic_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_net_pc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_net_pc:16:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_net_pc:16:update1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs_7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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