CVE-2016-5787
medium
CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.3
Description
General Electric (GE) Digital Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY before 8.2 SIM 27 mishandles service DACLs, which allows local users to modify a service configuration via unspecified vectors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ge | cimplicity | {"endExcluding":"8.2"} | 8.2 |
| ge | cimplicity | 8.2 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91727
- https://ge-ip.force.com/communities/en_US/Article/GE-Digital-Security-Advisory-GED-16-01
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-194-02
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91727
- https://ge-ip.force.com/communities/en_US/Article/GE-Digital-Security-Advisory-GED-16-01
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-194-02
CWEs
CWE-668
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.