CVE-2020-14498
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2020-08-26
- Fixed in6.5.5
- WeaknessCWE-121 · CWE-787
Am I affected?
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Description
HMS Industrial Networks AB eCatcher all versions prior to 6.5.5 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, which may allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2020-08-2614:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-14498?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-14498?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | < 6.5.5 | 6.5.5 | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
HMS Industrial Networks eCatcher
eCatcher: All versions prior to 6.5.5
Fix
- Update Hms-networks ecatcher to 6.5.5
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-210-03 · 1 productHMS recommends users update eCatcher to Version 6.5.5 or later.
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-210-03 · 1 productFor more information, see the HMS advisory.
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2020-08-26
- Last Modified
- 2026-09-10
- NVD status
- Modified
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