HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-0229

Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted session on TCP port 14000 to (1) ihDataArchiver.exe or (2) ihDataArchiver_x64.exe.
Affected vendor
Ge
Affected product
Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian
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
2012-03-15

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 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-0229

  • Confirm whether Ge Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-0229.
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