GE Digital Proficy Code Injection

published 2023-03-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-12636

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits: 0; none known

GE Digital Proficy iFIX 2022, GE Digital Proficy iFIX v6.1, and GE Digital Proficy iFIX v6.5 are vulnerable to code injection, which may allow an attacker to insert malicious configuration files in the expected web server execution path and gain full control of the HMI software.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-23-073-03 updated 2023-03-29 cvss 7.8

GE iFIX

GE Digital Proficy iFIX 2022, 6.1, 6.5
affected: vendor fix 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: 21 mo ago (2025-01-16)

Exploit prediction

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

GE Digital Proficy iFIX

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

cisa.gov /news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-073-03
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
digitalsupport.ge.com /s/article/iFIX-Secure-Deployment-Guide?language=en_US
permissions-required

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-0598
NVD CVE-2023-0598

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Summary