CVE-2026-85479 (GCVE-0-2026-85479)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-09 13:52 – Updated: 2026-10-09 13:52
VLAI
Title
Grid Protection Alliance openPDC and openHistorian Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Summary
The STTP-based data publisher on openPDC accepts network connections without authentication in its default configuration. An unauthenticated network attacker can connect to this interface and exchange data with it.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
icscert CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 352 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Grid Protection Alliance openPDC Affected: 0 , < 2.9.477 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.482 (custom)
Unaffected: 2.9.482
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Grid Protection Alliance openPDC (Docker image) Affected: 0 , < 2.9.477 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 2.9.482 (custom)
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Grid Protection Alliance openHistorian Affected: 0 , < 2.8.580 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 2.8.585 (custom)
Unaffected: 2.8.585
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Credits
Shubham Raj (Cipher) of Causal Security reported this vulnerability to CISA.
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