CVE-2022-31804: CODESYS Gateway server prone to denial of service attack due to excessive memory allocation

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-06-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-789

Description

The CODESYS Gateway Server V2 does not verifiy that the size of a request is within expected limits. An unauthenticated attacker may allocate an arbitrary amount of memory, which may lead to a crash of the Gateway due to an out-of-memory condition.

Affected products

CODESYS Gateway Server V2: from 2.0 before 2.3.9.38 — fixed in 2.3.9.38

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: CODESYS Gateway Server V2 2.3.9.38. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://customers.codesys.com/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=17141&token=17867e35cfd30c77ba0137f9a17b3a557a4b7b66&download=
https://customers.codesys.com/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=17141&token=17867e35cfd30c77ba0137f9a17b3a557a4b7b66&download=

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