CVE-2020-8768
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2020-02-17
- Fixed in1.2.3
- WeaknessCWE-732
Am I affected?
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Description
An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact Emalytics Controller ILC 2050 BI before 1.2.3 and BI-L before 1.2.3 devices. There is an insecure mechanism for read and write access to the configuration of the device. The mechanism can be discovered by examining a link on the website of the device.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2020-02-1721:15CVE 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-2020-8768?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-8768?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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | < 1.2.3 | 1.2.3 | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | < 1.2.3 | 1.2.3 | 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
ICSA-20-063-02_PHOENIX CONTACT Emalytics Controller ILC
ILC 2050 BI-L (Article number 2404671): all versions prior to 1.2.3 · ILC 2050 BI (Article number 2403160): all versions prior to 1.2.3
Fix
- Update Phoenixcontact ilc 2050 bi firmware to 1.2.3
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-063-02 · 2 productsPhoenix Contact strongly recommends affected users update to engineering software Emalytics v1.2.3 or higher and recommission the controllers. The updated version is available on the vendor's product page.
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-063-02 · 2 productsPlease see advisory number VDE-2020-001 from CERT@VDE for more information.
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.19.4read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.07.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-732read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.8 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2020-02-17
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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