Deserialization in Sick Safety Designer

CVE-2022-27580

A deserialization vulnerability in a .NET framework class used and not properly checked by Safety Designer all versions up to and including 1.11.0 allows an attacker to craft malicious project files. Opening/importing such a malicious project file would execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user when opened or imported by the Safety Designer. This compromises confidentiality integrity and availability. For the attack to succeed a user must manually open a malicious project file.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.004 (28.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-27580?
CVE-2022-27580 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sick Safety Designer, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-07-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-27580?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.