🛡️ CVE-2022-29959
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-522 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Emerson OpenBSI through 2022-04-29 mishandles credential storage. It is an engineering environment for the ControlWave and Bristol Babcock line of RTUs. This environment provides access control functionality through user authentication and privilege management. The credentials for various users are stored insecurely in the SecUsers.ini file by using a simple string transformation rather than a cryptographic mechanism.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-522
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-16
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openbsi

References

Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-221-03
Third Party Advisory https://www.forescout.com/blog/
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-221-03
Third Party Advisory https://www.forescout.com/blog/

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