Softing Secure Integration Server Uncontrolled Search Path Element

published 2022-08-17 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34603

cvss: 7.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 12.1%; EPSS 12.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits: 1; Metasploit

The application searches for a library dll that is not found. If an attacker can place a dll with this name, then the attacker can leverage it to execute arbitrary code on the targeted Softing Secure Integration Server V1.22.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-22-228-04 updated 2022-08-16 cvss 7.2

Softing Secure Integration Server

Softing edgeAggregator 3.1 Softing edgeConnector 3.1 Softing OPC Suite 5.2 Softing OPC UA C++ Server SDK 6 Softing Secure Integration Server <= 1.22 Softing uaGate 1.74
affected: mitigation “Softing Secure Integration Server: V1.30” industrial.softing.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

Timeline

2022-07-27 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/http/softing_sis_rce)
2022-08-17 Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

12.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit exploit/windows/http/softing_sis_rce Softing Secure Integration Server v1.22 Remote Code Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2022-07-27

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Softing Secure Integration Server

Classification

Weakness

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

industrial.softing.com /fileadmin/psirt/downloads/syt-2022-5.html
mitigation, vendor-advisory
cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-04
mitigation, third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-2334
NVD CVE-2022-2334

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Summary