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CVE-2023-3463: GE Digital CIMPLICITY Heap-based Buffer Overflow

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

All versions of GE Digital CIMPLICITY that are not adhering to SDG guidance and accepting documents from untrusted sources are vulnerable to memory corruption issues due to insufficient input validation, including issues such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, use-after-free, stack-based buffer overflows, uninitialized pointers, and a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• GE CIMPLICITY: all versions

References

• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-199-06
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-199-06

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