CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-12497
High (7.8) in phoenixcontact. EPSS 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
PLCopen XML file parsing in Phoenix Contact PC Worx and PC Worx Express version 1.87 and earlier can lead to a stack-based overflow. Manipulated PC Worx projects could lead to a remote code execution due to insufficient input data validation.
Severity
- EPSS
- 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-787, CWE-121
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- phoenixcontact:pc_worx
- phoenixcontact:pc_worx_express