CVE-2022-21798

ICSA-22-053-02 GE Proficy CIMPLICITY-Cleartext

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The affected product is vulnerable due to cleartext transmission of credentials seen in the CIMPLICITY network, which can be easily spoofed and used to log in to make operational changes to the system.

El producto afectado es vulnerable debido a una transmisión en texto sin cifrar de las credenciales visualizadas en la red de CIMPLICITY, que pueden ser fácilmente suplantadas y usadas para iniciar sesión y realizar cambios operativos en el sistema.

*Credits: Yuval Ardon and Roman Dvorkin of OTORIO reported this vulnerability to CISA

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-01-27 CVE Reserved
2022-02-25 CVE Published
2023-09-18 EPSS Updated
2024-09-16 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-053-02	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ge Search vendor "Ge"		Cimplicity Search vendor "Ge" for product "Cimplicity"				*		-		Affected