Deserialization of Untrusted Data in SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO and SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic - CVE-2022-23450
Published: April 19, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU62389
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23450
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Siemens
Affected software:
SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO
SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic
SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO
SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-23450
Install updates from vendor's website.