{"id":"CVE-2020-6992","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-6992","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:47:47.840Z","title":"A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA product v10.0 and prior.","description":"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.","published":"2020-04-15T17:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["ge/cimplicity"],"epss":{"score":0.00392,"percentile":0.33198,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov"},{"url":"https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02","tags":["Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6992","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}