THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-14505
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-14505

Iview vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
7.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Advantech iView, versions 5.6 and prior, has an improper neutralization of special elements used in a command (“command injection”) vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to send a HTTP GET or POST request that creates a command string without any validation. The attacker may then remotely execute code.
Affected vendor
Advantech
Affected product
Iview
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-07-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-14505

  • Confirm whether Advantech Iview is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-14505.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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