General Electric (GE) Digital Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY before 8.2 SIM 27 mishandles service DACLs, which allows local users to modify…

published 2016-07-15 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6722

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

ge cimplicity 8.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-16-194-02 updated 2025-06-09 cvss 5.7

GE Proficy HMI SCADA CIMPLICITY Privilege Management Vulnerability

GE CIMPLICITY <=8.2_SIM_26
affected: mitigation ge-ip.force.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

ge-ip.force.com /communities/en_US/Article/GE-Digital-Security-Advisory-GED-16-01
permissions-required, vendor-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-16-194-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/91727
vdb-entry, broken-link, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-5787
NVD CVE-2016-5787

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Summary