CVE-2022-45147

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS neo V4.0 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 V16 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 V17 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 V18 (All versions < V18 Update 2). Affected applications do not properly restrict the .NET BinaryFormatter when deserializing user-controllable input. This could allow an attacker to cause a type confusion and execute arbitrary code within the affected application.

This is the same issue that exists for .NET BinaryFormatter https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/ca2300.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SiemensSIMATIC PCS neo V4.00 < *affected
SiemensSIMATIC STEP 7 V160 < *affected
SiemensSIMATIC STEP 7 V170 < *affected
SiemensSIMATIC STEP 7 V180 < V18 Update 2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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