CVE-2020-13552

HIGH

Advantech WebAccess/SCADA 9.0.1 - Local Privilege Escalation via Service Executable Replacement

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of Advantech WebAccess/SCADA 9.0.1 installation. In privilege escalation via multiple service executables in installation folder of WebAccess, an attacker can either replace binary or loaded modules to execute code with NT SYSTEM privilege.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1169

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-276
Status published
Products (1)
advantech/webaccess\/scada 9.0.1
Published Feb 17, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026