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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2020-12518

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

On Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control Devices versions before 2021.0 LTS an attacker can use the knowledge gained by reading the insufficiently protected sensitive information to plan further attacks.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published