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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2022-1261 json

Matrikon OPC Server Improper Access Control

published 2022-05-26 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-24594

cvss
5.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Matrikon, a subsidary of Honeywell Matrikon OPC Server (all versions) is vulnerable to a condition where a low privileged user allowed to connect to the OPC server to use the functions of the IPersisFile to execute operating system processes with system-level privileges.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-22-144-02 updated cvss 5.8

Matrikon OPC Server

  • Matrikon, Honeywell Matrikon OPC Server
    affected: mitigation “Matrikon advises affected users to apply mitigations from its security best practices document (login required).” matrikonopc.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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Matrikon, a subsidiary of Honeywell Matrikon OPC Server

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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