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FKIE_CVE-2022-2970

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-09-23 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:42

Severity

10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

MZ Automation's libIEC61850 (versions 1.4 and prior; version 1.5 prior to commit a3b04b7bc4872a5a39e5de3fdc5fbde52c09e10e) does not sanitize input before memcpy is used, which could allow an attacker to crash the device or remotely execute arbitrary code.

References

	URL	Tags
	ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-251-01	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-251-01	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mz-automation	libiec61850	*

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CVE-2022-2970 (GCVE-0-2022-2970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-23 15:28 – Updated: 2025-04-16 16:09

Title

MZ Automation libIEC61850 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

Summary

Severity

10 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-16 15:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

icscert CNA under the icscert root

CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 349 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-2…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
MZ Automation	libIEC61850	Affected: All , ≤ 1.4 (custom) Affected: Version 1.5 , < Commit: a3b04b7bc4872a5a39e5de3fdc5fbde52c09e10e (custom)

Date Public

2022-09-08 00:00

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