Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2970

Critical

Published: 23 September 2022

Published
23 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.3th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2970 is a critical-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Mz-Automation Libiec61850. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 45.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mz-automation
libiec61850
≤ 1.5.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References