CVE-2022-32515 — A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerabili

A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability exists that could cause brute force attacks to take over the admin account when the product does not implement a rate limit mechanism on the admin authentication form. Affected Products: Conext™ Co

01What is this vulnerability?

A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability exists that could cause brute force attacks to take over the admin account when the product does not implement a rate limit mechanism on the admin authentication form. Affected Products: Conext™ ComBox (All Versions)

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Schneider Electric	Conext™ ComBox	All Versions

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-05T20:08:34.356Z

09References

• download.schneider-electric.com — https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_enDocType=Security+and+Safety+No…