cve-2022-23854
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-23 20:50
Modified
2025-02-13 16:32
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
AVEVA InTouch Access Anywhere versions 2020 R2 and older are vulnerable to a path traversal exploit that could allow an unauthenticated user with network access to read files on the system outside of the secure gateway web server.
References
ics-cert@hq.dhs.govhttps://crisec.de/advisory-aveva-intouch-access-anywhere-secure-gateway-path-traversal
ics-cert@hq.dhs.govhttps://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2023-001_r.pdf
ics-cert@hq.dhs.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-342-02Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crisec.de/advisory-aveva-intouch-access-anywhere-secure-gateway-path-traversal
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2023-001_r.pdf
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-342-02Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
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