Phoenix Contact BTP Touch Panels uncontrolled resource consumption

published 2020-12-02 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-4826

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits: 0; none known

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption can be exploited to cause the Phoenix Contact HMIs BTP 2043W, BTP 2070W and BTP 2102W in all versions to become unresponsive and not accurately update the display content (Denial of Service).

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Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

Phoenix Contact BTP Touch Panel

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cert.vde.com /en-us/advisories/vde-2020-047
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-12524
NVD CVE-2020-12524

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