CVE-2020-12525 — M&M Software fdtCONTAINER Component in versions below 3

M&M Software fdtCONTAINER Component in versions below 3.5.20304.x and between 3.6 and 3.6.20304.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data in its project storage.

01What is this vulnerability?

M&M Software fdtCONTAINER Component in versions below 3.5.20304.x and between 3.6 and 3.6.20304.x is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data in its project storage.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
M&M Software	fdtCONTAINER Component	unspecified, 3.5, 3.6
M&M Software	fdtCONTAINER Application	unspecified, 4.5, 4.6
M&M Software	dtmlINSPECTOR	3
Pepperl+Fuchs	PACTware / PACTware	unspecified
Weidmüller	WI Manager	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2021-01-22T19:01:56.886Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T23:11:43.568Z

09References

• cert.vde.com — https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2020-038
• us-cert.cisa.gov — https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-021-05