Type confusion in GUIcon Eurotherm - CVE-2018-7815
Published: December 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16539
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7815
CWE-ID: CWE-843
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to type confusion error on c3core.dll. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into parsing a specially crafted GD1 file and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
GUIcon Eurotherm
How to mitigate CVE-2018-7815
Update to version 2.0.683.003.
GUIcon Eurotherm - update to 2.0.683.003