CVE-2020-8478

ABB System 800xA Inter process communication vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Apr 29, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 30, 2020

Description

Insufficient protection of the inter-process communication functions in ABB System 800xA products OPC Server for AC 800M, MMS Server for AC 800M and Base Software for SoftControl (all published versions) enables an attacker authenticated on the local system to inject data, affecting the online view of runtime data shown in Control Builder.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	ABB

Weaknesses

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OPC Server for AC 800MABB	all versionsAffected
MMS Server for AC 800MABB	all versionsAffected
Base Software for SoftControlABB	all versionsAffected

References

https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=2PAA121236&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch

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