CVE-2020-7478A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory exists in IGSS (Versions 14 and prior using the service:…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory exists in IGSS (Versions 14 and prior using the service: IGSSupdate), which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the IGSS server PC on an unrestricted or shared network when the IGSS Update Service is enabled.
Timeline
ID reserved
By schneider
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.2% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) (IGSS Version prior to 14.0.0.20009)
- affected IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) (Versions 14 and prior using the service: IGSSupdate)
References
References2
- https://www.se.com/ww/en/download/document/SEVD-2020-070-01/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-371/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-28603 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-7478)Record last updated .