CVE-2023-34982: AVEVA Operations Control Logger External Control of File Name or Path

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2023-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-73

Description

This external control vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to delete files with System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in denial of service.

Affected products

AVEVA Batch Management: before 2020; 2020, 2020-sp1 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Communication Drivers: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r2, 2020-r2_p01 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Edge: through 20.1.101
AVEVA Enterprise Licensing: through 3.7.002
AVEVA Historian: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r2, 2020-r2_p01 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA InTouch: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r2, 2020-r2_p01 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System: before 2020; 2020, 2020-p01 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Mobile Operator: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r1 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Plant Scada: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r2 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Recipe Management: before 2020; 2020, 2020-update_1_patch_2 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA System Platform: before 2020; 2020, 2020-r2, 2020-r2_p01 — fixed in 2020
AVEVA Telemetry Server: 2020r2, 2020r2-sp1
AVEVA Work Tasks: before 2020; 2020, 2020-update_1, 2020-update_2 — fixed in 2020

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: AVEVA Batch Management 2020; AVEVA Communication Drivers 2020; AVEVA Historian 2020; AVEVA InTouch 2020; AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System 2020; AVEVA Mobile Operator 2020; AVEVA Plant Scada 2020; AVEVA Recipe Management 2020; AVEVA System Platform 2020; AVEVA Work Tasks 2020. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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