CVE-2022-23448

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.3 Update 1), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.3 Update 1). Affected applications improperly assign permissions to critical directories and files used by the application processes. This could allow a local unprivileged attacker to achieve code execution with ADMINISTRATOR or even NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM privileges.

Affected products

Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic: before 7.3; 7.3 — fixed in 7.3
Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO: before 7.3; 7.3 — fixed in 7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic 7.3; Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO 7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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