CVE-2022-30938
Published: 12 July 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-30938 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Siemens En100 Ethernet Module. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 16.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-52687
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been identified in EN100 Ethernet module DNP3 IP variant (All versions), EN100 Ethernet module IEC 104 variant (All versions), EN100 Ethernet module IEC 61850 variant (All versions < V4.40), EN100 Ethernet module Modbus TCP variant (All versions),…
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EN100 Ethernet module PROFINET IO variant (All versions). Affected applications contains a memory corruption vulnerability while parsing specially crafted HTTP packets to /txtrace endpoint manupulating a specific argument. This could allow an attacker to crash the affected application leading to a denial of service condition
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.