CVE-2020-16226
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2020-10-05
- WeaknessCWE-342
Am I affected?
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Description
Multiple Mitsubishi Electric products are vulnerable to impersonations of a legitimate device by a malicious actor, which may allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary commands.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2020-10-0518:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-16226?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-16226?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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | all versions | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | all versions | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | all versions | no fix published | NVD |
92 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 Multiple Products (Update G)
Mitsubishi Electric QJ71MES96: vers:all/* · Mitsubishi Electric QJ71WS96: vers:all/* · Mitsubishi Electric Q06CCPU-V: vers:all/* · +101 more
Fix
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 1 productR12CCPU-V: Version 14 or later
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 1 productRD55UP06-V: Version 10 or later
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 1 productRD55UP12-V: Version 02 or later
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 1 productRJ71GN11-T2: Version 12 or later
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 104 productsMitsubishi Electric recommends that users take the following mitigation measures to minimize the risk of exploiting this vulnerability:
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-245-01 · 104 productsUse a firewall or VPN, etc., to prevent unauthorized access when Internet access is required.
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.19.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.07.5read 2026-10-23
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-342read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score2.3 %2026-10-22
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
- 2020-10-05
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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