An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact Emalytics Controller ILC 2050 BI before 1.2.3 and BI-L before 1.2.3 devices.

published 2020-02-17 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-29616

cvss: 9.4; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact Emalytics Controller ILC 2050 BI before 1.2.3 and BI-L before 1.2.3 devices. There is an insecure mechanism for read and write access to the configuration of the device. The mechanism can be discovered by examining a link on the website of the device.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

phoenixcontact ilc_2050_bi_firmware 1.2.3
phoenixcontact ilc_2050_bi-l_firmware 1.2.3

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-20-063-02 updated 2020-03-03 cvss 9.4

ICSA-20-063-02_PHOENIX CONTACT Emalytics Controller ILC

Phoenix Contact ILC 2050 BI (Article number 2403160) < 1.2.3 Phoenix Contact ILC 2050 BI-L (Article number 2404671) < 1.2.3
affected: mitigation “Please see advisory number VDE-2020-001 from CERT@VDE for more information.” phoenixcontact.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

Exploit prediction

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

cert.vde.com /de-de/advisories/vde-2020-001
third-party-advisory
us-cert.gov /ics/advisories/icsa-20-063-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-8768
NVD CVE-2020-8768

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Summary