Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-49959

CriticalRCE

Published: 26 February 2024

Published
26 February 2024
Modified
05 May 2025
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 0.0166 82.5th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-49959 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Indu-Sol Profinet-Inspektor Nt. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Indo-Sol PROFINET-INspektor NT through 2.4.0, a command injection vulnerability in the gedtupdater service of the firmware allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands with root privileges via a crafted filename parameter in POST requests to the /api/updater/ctrl/start_update endpoint.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

indu-sol
profinet-inspektor nt
≤ 2.4.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References