CVE-2011-1918 — Stack-based buffer overflow in the Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian before 3.5 SIM 17 and 4.x before 4.0 SIM 12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted TCP message traffic

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Stack-based buffer overflow in the Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian before 3.5 SIM 17 and 4.x before 4.0 SIM 12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted TCP message traffic

Published Nov 2, 2011

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 6.29%

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian before 3.5 SIM 17 and 4.x before 4.0 SIM 12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted TCP message traffic.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

6.29% 0.06286

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.06286

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	6.29% (0.06286)	93.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	6.56% (0.06561)	92.93th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Feb 20, 2026	4.56% (0.04558)	88.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.36% (0.01357)	78.82th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	15.46% (0.15462)	95.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 11, 2024	17.93% (0.17931)	96.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	23.36% (0.23355)	95.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.29% (0.04291)	87.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.29% (0.04291)	86.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.29% (0.04291)	70.14th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (3)

http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-11-243-03A
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50475
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICSA-11-243-03.pdf
x_refsource_MISCUS Government Resource

Link	Providers	Tags
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-11-243-03A		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50475		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICSA-11-243-03.pdf		x_refsource_MISCUS Government Resource

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner certcc

Published Nov 2, 2011

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 9, 2011

Link CVE-2011-1918

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2011-1918

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2011-1918