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critical 10.0

CVE-2022-2970 json

MZ Automation libIEC61850 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-35191

cvss
10.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

MZ Automation's libIEC61850 (versions 1.4 and prior; version 1.5 prior to commit a3b04b7bc4872a5a39e5de3fdc5fbde52c09e10e) does not sanitize input before memcpy is used, which could allow an attacker to crash the device or remotely execute arbitrary code.

Patch / fix

  • MZ Automation libIEC61850 Commit: a3b04b7bc4872a5a39e5de3fdc5fbde52c09e10e

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Vendor advisories

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cisa ICSA-22-251-01 updated cvss 10.0

MZ Automation libIEC61850

  • MZ Automation GmbH libIEC61850 >= 1.5, <= a3b04b7bc4872a5a39e5de3fdc5fbde52c09e10e, <= 1.4
    affected: vendor fix github.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
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • MZ Automation libIEC61850

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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