CVE-2022-4333 (GCVE-0-2022-4333)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-01 05:36 – Updated: 2025-01-10 18:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Sprecher: Sprecon maintenance access with hardcoded credentials
Summary
Hardcoded Credentials in multiple SPRECON-E CPU variants of Sprecher Automation allows an remote attacker to take over the device. These accounts should be deactivated according to Sprecher's hardening guidelines.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-10 18:44 UTC
CWE
- CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
4 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprecher Automation | SPRECON-E CPU PU243x |
Affected:
all
|
guessed | |
| Sprecher Automation | SPRECON-E CPU PU244x |
Affected:
all
|
guessed | |
| Sprecher Automation | SPRECON-E CPU MC33/34 |
Affected:
all
|
guessed | |
| Sprecher Automation | SPRECON-E CPU SPRECON-EDIR |
Affected:
all
|
guessed |
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Nomenclature
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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