CVE-2022-2948 GE CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow

What is CVE-2022-2948?

CVE-2022-2948 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in GE CIMPLICITY, published on 7 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

GE CIMPICITY versions 2022 and prior is

vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Weakness: CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2948?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ge Cimplicity.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2948?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2948 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-2948 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2948 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in GE CIMPLICITY

• CVE-2018-15362 XML external entity in GE Proficy Cimplicity GDS Critical 9.1
• CVE-2023-4487 GE Digital CIMPLICITY Process Control High 7.8
• CVE-2022-2002 GE CIMPLICITY Untrusted Pointer Dereference High 7.8
• CVE-2022-2952 GE CIMPLICITY Access of Uninitialized Pointer High 7.8
• CVE-2022-3084 GE CIMPLICITY Access of Uninitialized Pointer High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9898-j6rc-mv8c.