ICSA-22-053-01 GE Proficy CIMPLICITY-IPM

published 2022-02-25 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-28841

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits: 0; none known

Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in local privilege escalation and code execution. GE maintains exploitation of this vulnerability is only possible if the attacker has login access to a machine actively running CIMPLICITY, the CIMPLICITY server is not already running a project, and the server is licensed for multiple projects.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-22-053-01 updated 2022-02-22 cvss 7.5

GE Proficy CIMPLICITY-IPM

General Electric (GE) Proficy CIMPLICITIY <= 11.1
affected: mitigation “The upgrade contains what GE believes are mitigation measures to help ensure the vulnerability cannot be exploited.” digitalsupport.ge.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: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	3.7	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

General Electric Proficy CIMPLICITY

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-053-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-23921
NVD CVE-2022-23921

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Summary