CVE-2022-41976 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Scada-LTS 2.7.1.1 build 2948559113 allows remote attackers, authenticated in the application as a low-privileged user to change role (e.g., to administrator) by updating their user profile.

Published: 2023-04-10

Score: 9.9 Critical

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:scada-lts:scada-lts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45080	An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Scada-LTS 2.7.1.1 build 2948559113 allows remote attackers, authenticated in the application as a low-privileged user to change role (e.g., to administrator) by updating their user profile.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01554.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
http://scada-lts.org/
https://github.com/SCADA-LTS/Scada-LTS/releases
https://m3n0sd0n4ld.blogspot.com/2022/11/scada-lts-privilege-escalation-cve-2022.html

History

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Scada-lts Scada-lts

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-12T15:59:37.945Z

Reserved: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41976

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:56:39.288Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-10T15:15:07.143

Modified: 2026-06-17T05:04:10.340

Link: CVE-2022-41976

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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