CVE-2023-4487 GE Digital CIMPLICITY Process Control

What is CVE-2023-4487?

CVE-2023-4487 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in GE Digital CIMPLICITY, published on 5 Sep 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

GE CIMPLICITY 2023 is by a process control vulnerability, which could allow a local attacker to insert malicious configuration files in the expected web server execution path to escalate privileges and gain full control of the HMI software.

Weakness: CWE-114

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4487?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ge Cimplicity.

How do I fix CVE-2023-4487?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4487 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-2023-4487 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4487 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in GE Digital CIMPLICITY

• CVE-2018-15362 XML external entity in GE Proficy Cimplicity GDS Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-2002 GE CIMPLICITY Untrusted Pointer Dereference High 7.8
• CVE-2022-2948 GE CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow 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
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Also known as GHSA-v7vw-fpcc-2x25.