Keysight Geolocation Server Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

published 2023-07-19 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-40773

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 10%
public exploits: 0; none known

In Keysight Geolocation Server v2.4.2 and prior, a low privileged attacker could create a local ZIP file containing a malicious script in any location. The attacker could abuse this to load a DLL with SYSTEM privileges.

Vendor advisories

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cisa ICSA-23-199-02 updated 2023-07-18 cvss 7.8

Keysight N6845A Geolocation Server

Keysight Technologies N6854A Geolocation Server <= 2.4.2
affected: vendor fix keysight.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: 2 y ago (2024-10-24)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% 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

Keysight Technologies N6845A Geolocation Server

Classification

Weakness

CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

cisa.gov /news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-199-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-36853
NVD CVE-2023-36853

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Summary