Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-12732

RCE

Title: Ge Intelligent Platforms Proficy Hmi\/Scada Cimplicity RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-12732.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 05, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-12732: A Stack-based Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in GE CIMPLICITY Versions 9.0 and prior. A function reads a packet to indicate the next packet length. The next packet length is not verified, allowing a buffer overwrite that could lead to an arbitrary remote code execution.

Impacted Vendors

ge 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101174 https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-17-278-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101174 https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-17-278-01

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns