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CVE-2020-6654 (GCVE-0-2020-6654)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-30 20:36 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:10
VLAI
Title
DLL Hijacking
Summary
A DLL Hijacking vulnerability in Eaton's 9000x Programming and Configuration Software v 2.0.38 and prior allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by replacing the required DLLs with malicious DLLs when the software try to load vci11un6.DLL and cinpl.DLL.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
  • CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Eaton 9000x Programming and Configuration Software Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2.0.38 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-09-07 00:00
Credits
Eaton would like to thank Yongjun liu from Nsfocus security team
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