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CVE-2023-29445
Uncontrolled Search Path Element in PTC's Kepware KEPServerEX
High7.8EPSS 0.24%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Dragos
Description
An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability (DLL hijacking) has been discovered that could allow a locally authenticated adversary to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Dragos
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| DragosCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 6.14.263.0
PTC · ThingWorx Kepware Server
- affected ≤ 6.14.263.0
PTC · ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity
- affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.5
References (3)
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-243-03 (opens in a new tab)government-resourcex_transferred
- https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs399528 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.dragos.com/advisory/ptcs-kepserverex-vulnerabilities/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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