THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-23450
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2022-23450

Simatic Energy Manager Basic vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
35.8%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.3 Update 1), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.3 Update 1). The affected system allows remote users to send maliciously crafted objects. Due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the affected software, an unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a maliciously crafted serialized object. This could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device with SYSTEM privileges.
Affected vendor
Siemens
Affected product
Simatic Energy Manager Basic
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2022-04-12

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 35.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-23450

  • Confirm whether Siemens Simatic Energy Manager Basic is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-23450.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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