CVE-2022-21798 (GCVE-0-2022-21798)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-25 18:10
Modified
2025-04-16 18:00
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
General Electric Proficy CIMPLICITY Version: all
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