High severity · published Dec 22, 2020
CVE-2020-24676
In Symphony Plus Operations and Symphony Plus Historian, some services can be vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Symphony Plus Operations and Symphony Plus Historian, some services can be vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. An unprivileged (but authenticated) user could execute arbitrary code and result in privilege escalation, depending on the user that the service runs as.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SH
Symphony + Historian · Abb
3.0; 3.1 · source: NVD
SO
Symphony + Operations · Abb
1.1; 2.0; 2.1; 2.1; 3.0; 3.1; +2 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24676
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24676
Mitigation
https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=2PAA123980&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
Mitigation
https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=2PAA123982&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
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