CVE-2008-0176

Cimplicity vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

7.9%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in w32rtr.exe in GE Fanuc CIMPLICITY HMI SCADA system 7.0 before 7.0 SIM 9, and earlier versions before 6.1 SP6 Hot fix - 010708_162517_6106, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected vendor

Ge Fanuc

Affected product

Cimplicity

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2008-01-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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