CVE-2020-6992

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.004 · 33 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.39% (33rd) EPSS

CVSS 4.6 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cisa_csaf_ot

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA product v10.0 and prior. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an adversary to modify the system, leading to the arbitrary execution of code. This vulnerability is only exploitable if an attacker has access to an authenticated session. GE Digital CIMPLICITY v11.0, released January 2020, contains mitigation for this local privilege escalation vulnerability. GE Digital recommends all users upgrade to GE CIMPLICITY v11.0 or newer.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

FixedGE Digital CIMPLICITYcisa_csaf_ot
GE Digital CIMPLICITY v11.0, released January 2020, contains mitigation for this local privilege escalation vulnerability. GE Digital recommends all users upgrade to GE CIMPLICITY v11.0 or newer. Other recommendations may mitigate issues, but only installing the most current version will fully address the issue. To obtain the latest version of this product, please contact a GE Digital representative.
https://digitalsupport.ge.com/communities/CC_Contact
MitigationGE Digital CIMPLICITYcisa_csaf_ot
GE Digital provides guidance for users to secure systems, and advises that users running CIMPLICITY adhere to the Secure Deployment Guide found on GE Digital's customer center (requires logon).
https://digitalsupport.ge.com/communities/en_US/Documentation/CIMPLICITY-Secure-Deployment-Guide2

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.6mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.4

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.06mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:Hsecondary · CISA US

v3.16.7mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USprimaryCWE-269USCWE-269US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

GE Digital CIMPLICITY: v10.0 and prior are affected by this vulnerabilityall versionscisa_csaf_otUS
General Electric (GE) GE Digital CIMPLICITY≤ 10.0cisa_csaf_otUS
n/a GE Digital CIMPLICITY≤ v10.0 and priorenisa_euvdEU
General Electric Company Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY≤ 10.0fstec_bduRU
ge cimplicity≤ 10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ge:cimplicity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

ICSA-20-098-02GE Digital CIMPLICITY2020-04-07icsa · cisa_csaf_otUS
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an adversary to modify the systemwide CIMPLICITY configuration, leading to the arbitrary execution of code.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cisa_csaf_ot nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-15modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6992 cnnvd
https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.1252/cnnvd
https://www.ge.com/Patchcnnvd
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02 cnnvd
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02 enisa_euvd
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcenvd

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