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CVE-2020-12142: IPSec UDP key material can be retrieved from EdgeConnect by a user with admin credentials

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.72% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.8% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

1. IPSec UDP key material can be retrieved from machine-to-machine interfaces and human-accessible interfaces by a user with admin credentials. Such a user, with the required system knowledge, could use this material to decrypt in-flight communication. 2. The vulnerability requires administrative access and shell access to the EdgeConnect appliance. An admin user can access IPSec seed and nonce parameters using the CLI, REST APIs, and the Linux shell.

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 5, 2020
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.7% · 53th percentile

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Action score

19

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.7%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
4.9
CNA · Silver Peak
4.8
0.1 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
silver-peakunity edgeconnect for amazon web services
silver-peakunity edgeconnect for azure
silver-peakunity edgeconnect for google cloud platform
silver-peakunity orchestrator
silver-peakvx-500 firmware
silver-peakvx-1000 firmware
silver-peakvx-2000 firmware
silver-peakvx-3000 firmware
silver-peakvx-5000 firmware
silver-peakvx-6000 firmware
silver-peakvx-7000 firmware
silver-peakvx-9000 firmware

and 32 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • silver-peak nx-1000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-10k firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-11k firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-2000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-3000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-5000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-6000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-700 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-7000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-8000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak nx-9000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak unity edgeconnect for amazon web servicesall versions
  • silver-peak unity edgeconnect for azureall versions
  • silver-peak unity edgeconnect for google cloud platformall versions
  • silver-peak unity orchestratorbefore 8.9.2
  • silver-peak vx-1000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak vx-2000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak vx-3000 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak vx-500 firmwareall versions
  • silver-peak vx-5000 firmwareall versions

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Silver Peak). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 1. Unity EdgeConnect, NX, VX 2. Unity Orchestrator,   3. EdgeConnect in AWS, Azure, GCP

    • All versions affected prior to Silver Peak Unity ECOS™ 8.3.2+, 8.1.9.12+ and Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator™ 8.9.2+affected

Same product

silver-peak: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2020-12144The certificate used to identify the Silver Peak Cloud Portal to EdgeConnect devices is not validated
    19Monitor
  • CVE-2020-12143The certificate used to identify Orchestrator to EdgeConnect devices is not validated
    19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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