CVE-2023-0228 (GCVE-0-2023-0228)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-02 01:44 – Updated: 2025-03-05 20:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Improper authentication vulnerability in S+ Operations
Summary
Improper Authentication vulnerability in ABB Symphony Plus S+ Operations.This issue affects Symphony Plus S+ Operations: from 2.X through 2.1 SP2, 2.2, from 3.X through 3.3 SP1, 3.3 SP2.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-05 20:44 UTC
CWE
- CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABB | Symphony Plus S+ Operations |
Affected:
2.x , ≤ 2.1 SP2
(custom)
Affected: 2.2 Affected: 3.x , ≤ 3.3 SP1 (custom) Affected: 3.3 SP2 |
guessed |
Date Public
2023-02-28 18:30
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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