Advantech iView, versions 5.6 and prior, has an improper authentication for critical function (CWE-306) issue. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain the information of the user table, including the administrator credentials in plain text. An attacker may also delete the administrator account.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-14501

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-m4v3-rhqc-gh4h

Published

May 24, 2022 5:23 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:23 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 23, 2025 6:31 AM

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