CVE-2022-2791 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Emerson Electric's Proficy Machine Edition Version 9.00 and prior is vulnerable to CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, and will upload any file written into the PLC logic folder to the connected PLC.

Published: 2022-11-22

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Emerson Electric

Proficy Machine Edition

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 9.00

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:emerson:proficy:*:*:*:*:machine:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-35032	Emerson Electric's Proficy Machine Edition Version 9.00 and prior is vulnerable to CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, and will upload any file written into the PLC logic folder to the connected PLC.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00048.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-06

History

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Emerson Proficy

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

Published: 2022-11-22T19:19:29.460Z

Updated: 2025-04-16T16:05:57.183Z

Reserved: 2022-08-11T19:47:28.251Z

Link: CVE-2022-2791

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:46:04.492Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-22T20:15:10.917

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:01:42.120

Link: CVE-2022-2791

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-434

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