CVE-2020-13552 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Advantech WebAccess/SCADA 9.0.1. It stems from insecure file system permissions, allowing an authenticated local attacker to replace executables or modules and achieve NT SYSTEM privileges. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code, nor active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess\/scada:9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.