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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2023-33873 json

AVEVA Operations Control Logger Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

published 2023-11-15 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-38023

cvss
7.8
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 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

This privilege escalation vulnerability, if exploited, cloud allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to escalate to System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in complete compromise of the target machine.

Patch / fix

  • aveva batch_management 2020
  • aveva communication_drivers 2020
  • aveva historian 2020
  • aveva intouch 2020
  • aveva manufacturing_execution_system 2020
  • aveva mobile_operator 2020
  • aveva plant_scada 2020
  • aveva recipe_management 2020
  • aveva system_platform 2020
  • aveva work_tasks 2020

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-23-318-01 updated cvss 7.8

AVEVA Operations Control Logger

  • AVEVA Application Server <=2020_R2_SP1_P01 AVEVA Batch Management <=2020_SP1 AVEVA Communication Drivers Pack <=2020_R2_SP1 AVEVA Edge (formerly known as Indusoft Web Studio) <=2020_R2_SP1_P01 AVEVA Enterprise Licensing (formerly known as License Manager) <=3.7.002 AVEVA Historian <=2020_R2_SP1_P01
    +8 more products
    AVEVA InTouch <=2020_R2_SP1_P01 AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System (formerly known as Wonderware MES) <=2020_P01 AVEVA Mobile Operator (formerly known as IntelaTrac Mobile Operator Rounds) <=2020_R1 AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly known as Citect) <=2020_R2_Update_15 AVEVA Recipe Management <=2020_R2_Update_1_Patch_2 AVEVA SystemPlatform <=2020_R2_SP1_P01 AVEVA Telemetry Server <=2020_R2_SP1 AVEVA Worktasks (formerly known as Workflow Management) <=2020_U2
    affected: mitigation “In addition to applying security updates, users should follow these general precautions:” aveva.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
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% 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 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • AVEVA SystemPlatform
  • AVEVA Historian
  • AVEVA Application Server
  • AVEVA InTouch
  • AVEVA Enterprise Licensing (formerly known as License Manager)
  • AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System (formerly known as Wonderware MES)
  • AVEVA Recipe Management
  • AVEVA Batch Management
  • AVEVA Edge (formerly known as Indusoft Web Studio)
  • AVEVA Worktasks (formerly known as Workflow Management)
  • AVEVA Plant SCADA (formerly known as Citect)
  • AVEVA Mobile Operator (formerly known as IntelaTrac Mobile Operator Rounds)
  • AVEVA Communication Drivers Pack
  • AVEVA Telemetry Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.