🛡️ CVE-2022-4048 — development-system-v3

🟠 CVSS 7.7 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-326 NVD
7.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Inadequate Encryption Strength in CODESYS Development System V3 versions prior to V3.5.18.40 allows an unauthenticated local attacker to access and manipulate code of the encrypted boot application.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-4048 is classified as CWE-326: Inadequate Encryption Strength. Encryption is applied, but with a key length or scheme too weak to resist a realistic attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2022-4048 is recorded against 1 package.

  • development-system-v3 (fixed in 3.5.18.40)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 May 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

customers.codesys.com
customers.codesys.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-326
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
development-system-v3 — 3.5.18.40

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