CVE-2023-3463: ge digital cimplicity Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-3463 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in ge digital cimplicity. EPSS estimates a 0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 19-07-2023
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 21-10-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

All versions of GE Digital CIMPLICITY that are not adhering to SDG guidance and accepting documents from untrusted sources are vulnerable to memory corruption issues due to insufficient input validation, including issues such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, use-after-free, stack-based buffer overflows, uninitialized pointers, and a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.