CVE-2022-37300: Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability exists that could cause unauthorized access in read and write mode to the controller when communicating over Modbus. Affected Products: EcoStruxure Control Expert Including all Unity Pro versions (former name of EcoStruxure Control Expert) (V15.0 SP1 and prior), EcoStruxure Process Expert, Including all versions of EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS (former name of EcoStruxure Process Expert) (V2021 and prior), Modicon M340 CPU (part numbers BMXP34*) (V3.40 and prior), Modicon M580 CPU (part numbers BMEP* and BMEH*) (V3.20 and prior).

Affected products

• Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert: before 15.1 (fixed in 15.1)
• Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Process Expert: up to and including 2021
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP341000 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342000 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP3420102 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342010 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342020 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342020H Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP3420302 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP3420302H Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342030 Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m340 BMXP342030H Firmware: before 3.50 (fixed in 3.50)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH582040 Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH582040C Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH582040S Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH584040 Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH584040C Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH584040S Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH586040 Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH586040C Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEH586040S Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEP581020 Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEP581020H Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEP582020 Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• Schneider Electric Modicon m580 BMEP582020H Firmware: before 4.02 (fixed in 4.02)
• and 11 more

Published 2022-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.