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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.9

CVE-2020-9045 json

C•CURE 9000 and victor Video Management System - Cleartext storage of user credentials upon installation or upgrade of software.

published 2020-05-21 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-29874

cvss
9.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

During installation or upgrade to Software House C•CURE 9000 v2.70 and American Dynamics victor Video Management System v5.2, the credentials of the user used to perform the installation or upgrade are logged in a file. The install log file persists after the installation.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-20-142-01 updated cvss 9.9

Johnson Controls Software House C-CURE 9000 and American Dynamics victor VMS

  • Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, Johnson Controls Inc. American Dynamics victor Video Management System 5.2 Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, Johnson Controls Inc. Software House C•CURE 9000 2.7
    affected: mitigation “For Software House C•CURE 9000: Users should upgrade to Version 2.80 or later.” johnsoncontrols.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

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Johnson Controls Software House C•CURE 9000 v2.70
  • Johnson Controls American Dynamics victor Video Management System v5.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.