Libiec61850
CVE-2022-3976
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: adjacent network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access files and directories outside the intended path. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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A vulnerability has been found in MZ Automation libiec61850 up to 1.4 and classified as critical. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Path Traversal vulnerability could allow attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
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This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. A vulnerability has been found in MZ Automation libiec61850 up to 1.4 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file src/mms/iso_mms/client/mms_client_files.c of the component MMS File Services. The manipulation of the argument filename leads to path traversal. Upgrading to version 1.5 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 10622ba36bb3910c151348f1569f039ecdd8786f. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-213556. Affected products include: Mz-Automation Libiec61850. Version information: up to 1.4.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A vulnerability has been found in MZ Automation libiec61850 up to 1.4 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file src/mms/iso_mms/client/mms_client_files.c of the component MMS File Services. The manipulation of the argument filename leads to path traversal. Upgrading to version 1.5 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 10622ba36bb3910c151348f1569f039ecdd8786f. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-213556.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
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