CVE-2022-29959: Emerson Openbsi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Emerson Openbsi: before 5.9 (fixed in 5.9); version 5.9 only

Published 2022-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.