VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-3825

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.76%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-07-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

PTC’s KEPServerEX Versions 6.0 to 6.14.263 are vulnerable to being made to read a recursively defined object that leads to uncontrolled resource consumption. KEPServerEX uses OPC UA, a protocol which defines various object types that can be nested to create complex arrays. It does not implement a check to see if such an object is recursively defined, so an attack could send a maliciously created message that the decoder would try to decode until the stack overflowed and the device crashed.

Weakness classification

  • ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references