Fieldcomm Group HART-IP and hipserver - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

published 2022-05-19 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-8175

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits: 0; none known

A malicious attacker could exploit the interface of the Fieldcomm Group HART-IP (release 1.0.0.0) by constructing messages with sufficiently large payloads to overflow the internal buffer and crash the device, or obtain control of the device.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-20-287-04 updated 2020-10-13 cvss 9.8

Fieldcomm Group HART-IP and hipserver

Fieldcomm Group HART-IP Developer kit 1.0.0.0 Fieldcomm Group hipserver 3.6.1
affected: mitigation github.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

1.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Fieldcomm Group HART-IP Developer Kit
Fieldcomm Group hipserver

Classification

Weakness

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

References

cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-20-287-04
mitigation, third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-16209
NVD CVE-2020-16209

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Summary