CVE-2017-12732

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Publication date:

05/10/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in GE CIMPLICITY Versions 9.0 and prior. A function reads a packet to indicate the next packet length. The next packet length is not verified, allowing a buffer overwrite that could lead to an arbitrary remote code execution.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.80

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical