CVE-2022-23448

HIGH

Siemens Simatic Energy Manager Basic - Incorrect Permission Assignment

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.3 Update 1), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.3 Update 1). Affected applications improperly assign permissions to critical directories and files used by the application processes. This could allow a local unprivileged attacker to achieve code execution with ADMINISTRATOR or even NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM privileges.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-655554.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (4)
siemens/simatic_energy_manager_basic 7.3
siemens/simatic_energy_manager_basic < 7.3
siemens/simatic_energy_manager_pro 7.3
siemens/simatic_energy_manager_pro < 7.3
Published Apr 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026