Security Resilience

CVE-2023-46360

Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge Firmware ≤ 1.87.0

Public PoC
Published
06 February 2024
Modified
09 July 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.028 86th percentile
Risk Priority 86 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-46360 is a high-severity Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) vulnerability in Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked in the top 14% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

Hardy Barth cPH2 eCharge Ladestation versions 1.87.0 and earlier contain an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46360 and assigned CWE-250. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 with a network attack vector, low complexity, and low privileges required, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

An authenticated remote attacker with low-privileged access can exploit the condition to run commands or processes at elevated privileges beyond those intended for the account. This enables full compromise of the charging station's operating environment without needing user interaction.

The associated EPSS score stands at 0.5512 with no indicated rise from a lower baseline. Public references point to vendor information at hardy.com and detailed analysis of related command-injection issues in the same product line, but no specific patch or mitigation guidance is supplied in the available data.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Hardy Barth cPH2 eCharge Ladestation v1.87.0 and earlier is vulnerable to Execution with Unnecessary Privileges.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-250

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001 Data Obfuscation Command And Control
Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make it more difficult to detect.
attack.mitre.org →
T1001.001 Junk Data Command And Control
Adversaries may add junk data to protocols used for command and control to make detection more difficult.
attack.mitre.org →
T1007 System Service Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may try to gather information about registered local system services.
attack.mitre.org →
T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a different network medium than the command and control channel.
attack.mitre.org →
T1027.003 Steganography Stealth
Adversaries may use steganography techniques in order to prevent the detection of hidden information.
attack.mitre.org →
T1027.004 Compile After Delivery Stealth
Adversaries may attempt to make payloads difficult to discover and analyze by delivering files to victims as uncompiled code.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-3883Same product: Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge
CVE-2025-3881Same product: Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge
CVE-2023-46359Same product: Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge
CVE-2025-3882Same product: Hardy-Barth Cph2 Echarge
CVE-2026-20017Shared CWE-250
CVE-2025-43017Shared CWE-250
CVE-2026-24183Shared CWE-250
CVE-2026-92574Shared CWE-250
CVE-2024-11075Shared CWE-250
CVE-2025-6893Shared CWE-250

Affected Assets

hardy-barth
cph2 echarge firmware
≤ 1.87.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 4 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V10.2.3
  • V13.2.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

Least privilege directly requires that only the minimum necessary authorizations are granted, structurally eliminating execution with unnecessary privileges.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
blocks

PR.AA-05 directly enforces least privilege so largely eliminates CWE-250 at design time, yet the weakness can still arise from runtime escalation paths, third-party code, or misapplied role definitions outside this single control.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.14 Information transfer partial match
removes
A.5.15 Access control partial match
blocks

A.5.15's policy, requirements, and rules for determining/minimizing access rights (incl. privileged access restrictions, need-to-know, least-privilege-like mapping, and role-based consistency) directly stop most unnecessary-privilege execution by design; bounded remainder is runtime elevation or misconfigured enforcement that still requires other controls (e.g. 8.2, 8.3) to act.

A.5.16 Identity management partial match
removes
A.5.17 Authentication information partial match
removes
A.5.18 Access rights partial match
blocks

Requiring explicit justification and time-limited grants discourages the routine allocation of unnecessary privileges that would otherwise allow execution with more rights than required.

A.5.35 Independent review of information security partial match
finds

Independent scrutiny can identify processes or services still running with unnecessary privileges and drive their reduction before an attacker can abuse them.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (higher-evidence rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Windows 10 (1 rule)
  • V-220712 Only accounts responsible for the administration of a system must have Administrator rights on the system. blocks CWE-250
Windows Server 2016 (1 rule)
  • V-225007 Only administrators responsible for the member server or standalone or nondomain-joined system must have Administrator rights on the system. blocks CWE-250
Windows Server 2019 (1 rule)
  • V-205746 Windows Server 2019 must only allow Administrators responsible for the member server or standalone or nondomain-joined system to have Administrator rights on the system. blocks CWE-250

References