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CVE-2022-4987: Hirschmann Industrial HiVision External Application Path Hijacking Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-03 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Hirschmann Industrial HiVision version 08.1.03 prior to 08.1.04 and 08.2.00 contains a vulnerability in the execution of user-configured external applications that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary binaries. Due to insufficient path sanitization, an attacker can place a malicious binary in the execution path of a configured external application, causing it to be executed instead of the intended application. This can result in execution with elevated privileges depending on the context of the external application.

Affected products

• Belden Hirschmann Industrial HiVision: through 08.1.03

References

• https://assets.belden.com/m/62ae167036cb17c3/original/Microsoft-Word-Belden_Security_Bulletin_BSECV-2021-03_1v0-002-docx.pdf
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hirschmann-industrial-hivision-external-application-path-hijacking-leading-to-arbitrary-code-execution

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