CVE-2011-1918 describes a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Data Archiver service of GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian versions prior to 3.5 SIM 17 and 4.x prior to 4.0 SIM 12. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by crashing the daemon or potentially execute arbitrary code through specially crafted TCP messages. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ge:intelligent_platforms_proficy_historian:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ge:intelligent_platforms_proficy_historian:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.