CVE-2023-5908: ge gigital industrial gateway server Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-5908 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in ge gigital industrial gateway server. EPSS estimates a 0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 30-11-2023
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 02-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

KEPServerEX is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may allow an attacker to crash the product being accessed or leak information.

• 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-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.