CVE-2020-14479 ICSA-20-147-01 Inductive Automation Ignition (Update B)

What is CVE-2020-14479?

CVE-2020-14479 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Inductive Automation Ignition 7 Gateway, published on 1 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Sensitive information can be obtained through the handling of serialized data. The issue results from the lack of proper authentication required to query the server

Weakness: CWE-306

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14479?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Inductiveautomation Ignition.

How do I fix CVE-2020-14479?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-14479 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2020-14479 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14479 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Inductive Automation Ignition 7 Gateway

• CVE-2023-39475 Deserialization in Ignition Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-39476 Deserialization in Ignition Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-35890 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-39473 Deserialization in Ignition High 8.8
• CVE-2023-50218 Inductive Automation Ignition ModuleInvoke Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vgmg-2c72-8q95.