GE Digital CIMPLICITY Process Control

published 2023-09-05 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-54342

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

GE CIMPLICITY 2023 is by a process control vulnerability, which could allow a local attacker to insert malicious configuration files in the expected web server execution path to escalate privileges 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-23-243-02 updated 2023-08-31 cvss 7.8

GE Digital CIMPLICITY

GE Digital CIMPLICITY v2023
affected: mitigation “GE Digital recommends users apply the following mitigations:” 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

0.20% 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

GE Digital CIMPLICITY

Classification

Weakness

CWE-114 Process Control

References

cisa.gov /news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-243-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
digitalsupport.ge.com /s/article/GE-Digital-CIMPLICITY-Privilege-Escalation-Vulnerability
permissions-required

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-4487
NVD CVE-2023-4487

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Summary