Vulnerability · Published Dec 22, 2020 · Assigned by ABB

CVE-2020-24678Potential Privilege Escalation in Symphony Plus

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus Historian from ABB. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An authenticated user might execute malicious code under the user context and take control of the system. S+ Operations or S+ Historian database is affected by multiple vulnerabilities such as the possibility to allow remote authenticated users to gain high privileges.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
ABB ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus Operations unspecified – before 3.3 Service Pack 1unspecified – before 2.1 SP2 Rollup 2unspecified – before 2.2
ABB ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus Historian unspecified – before 3.2

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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