What is CVE-2023-49959?

CVE-2023-49959 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Indu-Sol Profinet-Inspektor Nt, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-02-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-49959?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Indu-Sol Profinet-Inspektor Nt

CVE-2023-49959

In Indo-Sol PROFINET-INspektor NT through 2.4.0, a command injection vulnerability in the gedtupdater service of the firmware allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands with root privileges via a crafted filename parameter in POST requests to the /api/updater/ctrl/start_update endpoint.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.014 (69.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Indu-sol Profinet-inspektor_nt
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Product)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-49959?: CVE-2023-49959 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Indu-Sol Profinet-Inspektor Nt, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-02-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-49959?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.