CVE-2022-2848: Ge Industrial Gateway Server

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Kepware KEPServerEX 6.11.718.0. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of text encoding conversions. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-16486.

Affected products

• Ge Industrial Gateway Server: before 7.612 (fixed in 7.612)
• PTC Kepware Kepserverex: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)
• PTC Opc-Aggregator: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)
• PTC Thingworx Industrial Connectivity: affected versions not specified
• PTC Thingworx Kepware Edge: before 1.4 (fixed in 1.4)
• PTC Thingworx Kepware Server: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)
• Rockwellautomation Kepserver Enterprise: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)
• Softwaretoolbox Top Server: before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12)

Published 2023-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.