Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-46359

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 06 February 2024

Published
06 February 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.9303 99.8th percentile
Risk Priority 75 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-46359 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

Deeper analysis

An OS command injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-46359 affects the Hardy Barth cPH2 eCharge Ladestation in version 1.87.0 and earlier. The flaw, assigned CWE-78, resides in the connectivity check feature and permits arbitrary operating system commands to be executed when specially crafted arguments are supplied.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue over the network without credentials or user interaction, achieving full system compromise including arbitrary command execution with impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 reflecting its critical severity and ease of remote exploitation.

Public references include a technical analysis from Offensity detailing the command injection in the cPH2 charging station alongside a related issue, as well as vendor links to Hardy Barth; however, no explicit patch or mitigation guidance is provided in the available references. The associated EPSS score remains elevated at a current value of 0.9303 with a peak of 0.9363.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An OS command injection vulnerability in Hardy Barth cPH2 eCharge Ladestation v1.87.0 and earlier, may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system via a specifically crafted arguments passed to the connectivity check feature.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

hardy-barth
cph2 echarge firmware
≤ 1.87.0

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References