CVE-2020-14523
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2022-02-11
- WeaknessCWE-22
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Description
Multiple Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation products have a vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2022-02-1118:15CVE 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-2020-14523?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-14523?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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.10 | ≤ 1.010l | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.22 | ≤ 1.22y | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.595 | ≤ 1.595v | no fix published | NVD |
17 more products in the sources.
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
Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Products Path Traversal (Update C)
GX Works2: Versions 1.595V and prior · MT Works2 Versions: 1.156N and prior · MELSEC iQ-R Series Motion Module: Versions 10 and prior · +9 more
Fix
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsCW Configurator: Version 1.011M or later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsFR Configurator2: Version 1.23Z or later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsGX Works2: Version 1.596W or later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsGX Works3: Version 1.065T or later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsMELSEC iQ-R Series Motion Module: Version 12 and later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-212-03 · 12 productsMELSOFT iQ AppPortal: Version 1.20W or later
Advisories and patches
- www.cisa.govPatch
- www.mitsubishielectric.comVendor 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:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2022-02-11
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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