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CVE-2013-0653 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in substitute.bcl in the WebView CimWeb subsystem in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLIC…

published 2013-01-27 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-0664

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.1%
EPSS 19.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in substitute.bcl in the WebView CimWeb subsystem in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY 4.01 through 8.0, and Proficy Process Systems with CIMPLICITY, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted packet.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-13-022-02 updated cvss 4.3

GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Cimplicity Multiple Vulnerabilities

  • GE Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY >=4.01 GE Proficy Process Systems with CIMPLICITY
    affected: mitigation “GE has created patches and has detailed configuration recommendations to mitigate these vulnerabilities: GEIP12-13 at (http://support.ge-ip.com/support/index?page=kbchannel&id=S:KB15153)”

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/admin/scada/ge_proficy_substitute_traversal)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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