CVE-2022-2336: Softing Secure Integration Server Improper Authentication

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Softing Secure Integration Server, edgeConnector, and edgeAggregator software ships with the default administrator credentials as `admin` and password as `admin`. This allows Softing to log in to the server directly to perform administrative functions. Upon installation or upon first login, the application does not ask the user to change the `admin` password. There is no warning or prompt to ask the user to change the default password, and to change the password, many steps are required.

Affected products

Softing edgeAggregator: 3.1
Softing edgeConnector: 3.1
Softing Industrial Automation all versions prior to the latest build of version 4.47.0 OPC: 5.2
Softing OPC UA C++ SDK (Software Development Kit): 6
Softing Secure Integration Server: 1.22
Softing Uagates: 1.74

References

https://industrial.softing.com/fileadmin/psirt/downloads/syt-2022-6.html
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-04
https://industrial.softing.com/fileadmin/psirt/downloads/syt-2022-6.html
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-04

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