CVE-2022-40976: Pilz Pas 4000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in multiple Pilz products. An unauthenticated local attacker could use a zipped, malicious configuration file to trigger arbitrary file writes ('zip-slip'). File writes do not affect confidentiality or availability.

Affected products

• Pilz Pas 4000: before 1.25.0 (fixed in 1.25.0)
• Pliz Pascal: up to and including 1.9.1
• Pliz Pasconnect: before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)
• Pliz Pasmotion: before 1.4.1 (fixed in 1.4.1)
• Pliz Pnozmulti Configurator: before 10.14.4 (fixed in 10.14.4); before 11.2.0 (fixed in 11.2.0)

Published 2022-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.