Vulnerabilites related to General Electric - Proficy CIMPLICITY
CVE-2022-21798 (GCVE-0-2022-21798)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-25 18:10
Modified
2025-04-16 18:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Summary
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.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Electric | Proficy CIMPLICITY |
Version: all |
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CVE-2022-23921 (GCVE-0-2022-23921)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-25 18:10
Modified
2025-04-16 18:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in local privilege escalation and code execution. GE maintains exploitation of this vulnerability is only possible if the attacker has login access to a machine actively running CIMPLICITY, the CIMPLICITY server is not already running a project, and the server is licensed for multiple projects.
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