CVE-2023-43817 (GCVE-0-2023-43817)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-18 21:15 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Delta Electronics Delta Industrial Automation DOPSoft DPS File wMailContentLen Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution
Summary
A buffer overflow exists in Delta Electronics Delta Industrial Automation DOPSoft version 2 when parsing the wMailContentLen field of a DPS file. An anonymous attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a specially crafted DPS file to achieve code execution.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-19 14:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://blog.exodusintel.com/2024/01/18/delta-ele… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Electronics | DOPSoft |
Affected:
2.00.00.00 , ≤ 2.00.07.04
(semver)
|
guessed |
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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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