CVE-2022-35873 Code injection in Ignition

What is CVE-2022-35873?

CVE-2022-35873 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Inductive Automation Ignition, published on 25 Jul 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

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Inductive Automation Ignition 8.1.15 (b2022030114). User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the processing of ZIP files. Crafted data in a ZIP file can cause the application to execute arbitrary Python scripts. The user interface fails to provide sufficient indication of the hazard. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-16949.

Weakness: CWE-356

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-35873?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Inductiveautomation Ignition.

How do I fix CVE-2022-35873?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-35873 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2022-35873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-35873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Inductive Automation Ignition

• CVE-2023-39475 Deserialization in Ignition Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-39476 Deserialization in Ignition Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-35890 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-39473 Deserialization in Ignition High 8.8
• CVE-2023-50218 Inductive Automation Ignition ModuleInvoke Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6hm7-67pg-crfx.