CVE-2022-23921 is a local privilege escalation and code execution vulnerability affecting GE Proficy CIMPLICITY. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation requires local login access to a CIMPLICITY machine, an inactive project, and a multi-project license, allowing an attacker to gain elevated privileges. While the EPSS score is very low and it's not listed in the KEV catalog, indicating a low probability of active exploitation, there is no public exploit code available, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ge:proficy_cimplicitiy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.