RCE in Kepware KEPServerEX 6.11.718.0 via Encoding Buffer Overflow
CVE-2022-2848 Published on March 29, 2023

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Kepware KEPServerEX 6.11.718.0. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of text encoding conversions. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-16486.

NVD

Weakness Type

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().


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Affected Versions

Kepware KEPServerEX Version 6.11.718.0 is affected by CVE-2022-2848

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.75%
Percentile
73.19%

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