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MEDIUM

CVE-2023-39479

CVE-2023-39479 — Softing Secure Integration Server OPC UA Gateway Directory Creation Vulnerability

Softing Secure Integration Server OPC UA Gateway Directory Creation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create directories on affected installations of Softing Secure Integration Server. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the handling of FileDirectory OPC UA Objects. The issue results from allowing unauthorized access to the filesystem. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-20548.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, zdi

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

2%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

softing

secure_integration_server

CVSS base

6.6

MEDIUM

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

softing

Products (1)

secure integration server

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
6.6CVSS 3.0MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-552

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1003OS Credential Dumping
  • T1119Automated Collection
  • T1213Data from Information Repositories

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • softingevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-552other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.