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CVE-2020-5531

Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC C Controller Module and MELIPC Series MI5000 MELSEC-Q Series C Controller Module(Q24DHCCPU-V, Q24DHCCPU-VG User…

Critical9.8EPSS 2.0%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
jpcert

Description

Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC C Controller Module and MELIPC Series MI5000 MELSEC-Q Series C Controller Module(Q24DHCCPU-V, Q24DHCCPU-VG User Ethernet port (CH1, CH2): First 5 digits of serial number 21121 or before), MELSEC iQ-R Series C Controller Module / C Intelligent Function Module(R12CCPU-V Ethernet port (CH1, CH2): First 2 digits of serial number 11 or before, and RD55UP06-V Ethernet port: First 2 digits of serial number 08 or before), and MELIPC Series MI5000(MI5122-VW Ethernet port (CH1): First 2 digits of serial number 03 or before, or the firmware version 03 or before) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and/or malware being executed via unspecified vectors.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By jpcert

  2. · 42 days later

    Published

  3. · 4 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2020-5531, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

  • Denial-of-service (DoS) and malware execution

Affected products

  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation · Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC C Controller Module and MELIPC Series MI5000

    • affected MELSEC-Q Series C Controller Module(Q24DHCCPU-V, Q24DHCCPU-VG User Ethernet port (CH1, CH2): First 5 digits of serial number 21121 or before), MELSEC iQ-R Series C Controller Module / C Intelligent Function Module(R12CCPU-V Ethernet port (CH1, CH2): First 2 digits of serial number 11 or before, and RD55UP06-V Ethernet port: First 2 digits of serial number 08 or before), and MELIPC Series MI5000(MI5122-VW Ethernet port (CH1): First 2 digits of serial number 03 or before, or the firmware version 03 or before)

References (2)

Sources

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