CVE-2017-12732: Ge Intelligent Platforms Proficy Hmi/scada Cimplicity

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in GE CIMPLICITY Versions 9.0 and prior. A function reads a packet to indicate the next packet length. The next packet length is not verified, allowing a buffer overwrite that could lead to an arbitrary remote code execution.

Affected products

• Ge Intelligent Platforms Proficy Hmi/scada Cimplicity: up to and including 9.0

Published 2017-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.