CVE-2020-7488

high

Published 2020-04-22 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

A CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability exists which could leak sensitive information transmitted between the software and the Modicon M218, M241, M251, and M258 controllers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
schneider-electric	ecostruxure_machine_expert
schneider-electric	somachine
schneider-electric	somachine_motion
schneider-electric	modicon_m218	`-`
schneider-electric	modicon_m241	`-`
schneider-electric	modicon_m251	`-`
schneider-electric	modicon_m258	`-`

References

https://www.se.com/ww/en/download/document/SEVD-2020-105-02

CWEs

CWE-319

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.