# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-12494"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-06-16T13:28:38.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-04T11:56:52.090Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:12.831Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-12494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-12494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12494"
title: "Beckhoff: Etherleak in TwinCAT RT network driver"
summary: "Beckhoff's TwinCAT RT network driver for Intel 8254x and 8255x is providing EtherCAT functionality. The driver implements real-time features. Except for Ethernet frames sent from real-time functionality, all other Ethernet frames sent through the driver are not padded if their payload is less than the minimum Ethernet frame size. Instead, arbitrary memory content is transmitted within in the padding bytes of the frame. Most likely this memory contains slices from previously transmitted or received frames. By this method, memory content is disclosed, however, an attacker can hardly control which memory content is affected. For example, the disclosure can be provoked with small sized ICMP echo requests sent to the device."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.0.3603 for TwinCAT 3.1 4024"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.0.3512 for TwinCAT 3.1 4022"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2.11.0.2120 for TwinCAT 2.11 2350"}],"vendor":"Beckhoff","product":"TwinCat Driver for Intel 8254x (Tcl8254x.sys)"},{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.0.3600 for TwinCAT 3.1 4024"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.0.3500 for TwinCAT 3.1 4024"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2.11.0.2117 for TwinCAT 2.11 2350"}],"vendor":"Beckhoff","product":"TwinCat Driver for Intel 8255x (Tcl8255x.sys)"}]

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