CVE-2023-3463 - GE Digital CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow

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CRITICAL

GE Digital CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Published Jul 19, 2023

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.38%

Description

All versions of GE Digital CIMPLICITY that are not adhering to SDG guidance and accepting documents from untrusted sources are vulnerable to memory corruption issues due to insufficient input validation, including issues such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, use-after-free, stack-based buffer overflows, uninitialized pointers, and a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

Vendor GE Digital Product Cimplicity Default
unaffected
- Version
  All
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

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

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

GE Digital

Cimplicity

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
All	affected	-

Remediation

Vendor solution

To obtain the latest versions of GE CIMPLICITY, contact your local GE Digital representative at https://digitalsupport.ge.com/s/contactsupport https://digitalsupport.ge.com/s/contactsupport .

Exploit is only possible if an authenticated user with local access to the system obtains and opens a document from a malicious source so secure deployment and strong access management by users is essential. GE Digital and customers have a shared responsibility for security and users are required to adhere to the most recent Secure Deployment Guide (SDG) instructions https://digitalsupport.ge.com/s/article/CIMPLICITY-Secure-Deployment-Guide2 .

Please refer to GE Digital’s security bulletin https://digitalsupport.ge.com/s/article/GE-Digital-CIMPLICITY-Memory-Corruption-Vulnerability for more information.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-122

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-44124
Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-199-06
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-44124		Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-199-06		Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource