CVE-2020-27009: Siemens Nucleus Net

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been identified in APOGEE PXC Compact (BACnet) (All versions < V3.5.5), APOGEE PXC Compact (P2 Ethernet) (All versions < V2.8.20), APOGEE PXC Modular (BACnet) (All versions < V3.5.5), APOGEE PXC Modular (P2 Ethernet) (All versions < V2.8.20), Nucleus NET (All versions < V5.2), Nucleus Source Code (Versions including affected DNS modules), TALON TC Compact (BACnet) (All versions < V3.5.5), TALON TC Modular (BACnet) (All versions < V3.5.5). The DNS domain name record decompression functionality does not properly validate the pointer offset values. The parsing of malformed responses could result in a write past the end of an allocated structure. An attacker with a privileged position in the network could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process or cause a denial-of-service condition.

Affected products

• Siemens Nucleus Net: before 5.2 (fixed in 5.2)
• Siemens Nucleus Source Code: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.