CVE-2012-1817

Deltav vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.0%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Emerson DeltaV and DeltaV Workstations 9.3.1, 10.3.1, 11.3, and 11.3.1 and DeltaV ProEssentials Scientific Graph 5.0.0.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an invalid field in a project file.

Affected vendor

Emerson

Affected product

Deltav

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2012-06-08

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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