# CVE-2023-3463: GE Digital CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow

> Attackers can execute arbitrary code on GE CIMPLICITY systems if they accept documents from untrusted sources without adhering to security guidance.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3f6p-pjc9-wj3g

## What is CVE-2023-3463?

CVE-2023-3463 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in GE Digital CIMPLICITY, published on 19 Jul 2023. 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

All versions of GE Digital CIMPLICITY that are not adhering to SDG guidance and accepting documents from untrusted sources are vulnerable to memory corruption issues due to insufficient input validation, including issues such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, use-after-free, stack-based buffer overflows, uninitialized pointers, and a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3463?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ge Cimplicity.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-3463?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3463 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-3463 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3463 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in GE Digital CIMPLICITY

- [CVE-2018-15362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15362/): XML external entity in GE Proficy Cimplicity GDS (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2023-4487](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4487/): GE Digital CIMPLICITY Process Control (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-2002](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2002/): GE CIMPLICITY Untrusted Pointer Dereference (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-2948](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2948/): GE CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-2952](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2952/): GE CIMPLICITY Access of Uninitialized Pointer (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3463 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-3463 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in GE Digital CIMPLICITY, published on 19 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3463 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: GE Digital CIMPLICITY. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3463/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3463/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3463
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3463
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3463

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3463/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.