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CVE-2020-13552

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of Advantech WebAccess/SCADA 9.0.1 installation. In privilege escalation via multiple service executables in installation folder of WebAccess, an attacker can either replace binary or loaded modules to execute code with NT SYSTEM privilege.

Affected products

• Advantech Webaccess/Scada: 9.0.1

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1169
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1169

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