CVE-2023-33873
AVEVA Operations Control Logger Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- icscert
Description
This privilege escalation vulnerability, if exploited, cloud allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to escalate to System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in complete compromise of the target machine.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1 P01
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1 P01
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1 P01
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1 P01
AVEVA · Enterprise Licensing (formerly known as License Manager)
- affected ≤ 3.7.002
AVEVA · Manufacturing Execution System (formerly known as Wonderware MES)
- affected ≤ 2020 P01
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 Update 1 Patch 2
- affected ≤ 2020 SP1
AVEVA · Edge (formerly known as Indusoft Web Studio)
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1 P01
AVEVA · Worktasks (formerly known as Workflow Management)
- affected ≤ 2020 U2
AVEVA · Plant SCADA (formerly known as Citect)
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 Update 15
AVEVA · Mobile Operator (formerly known as IntelaTrac Mobile Operator Rounds)
- affected ≤ 2020 R1
AVEVA · Communication Drivers Pack
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1
- affected ≤ 2020 R2 SP1
What to do
Solution: AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Users of affected products should apply security updates as soon as possible. In addition to applying security updates, users should follow these general precautions: * Ensure that Guest or Anonymous local OS accounts are disabled. * Ensure that only trusted users are able to login on the nodes where the Operations Control Logger is running. Please see AVEVA Security Bulletin number AVEVA-2023-003 https://www.aveva.com/en/support-and-success/cyber-security-updates/ for more information and for links for individual security updates and mitigations for each of the affected products. AVEVA System Platform 2020 through 2020 R2 SP1 cannot be newly installed on top of other AVEVA products which have been previously patched with the Operations Control Logger v22.1. For additional details please refer to Alert 000038736. https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/#/knowledgebase/details/000038736
References (2)
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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