CVE-2022-41976 — An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Scada-LTS 2

An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Scada-LTS 2.7.1.1 build 2948559113 allows remote attackers, authenticated in the application as a low-privileged user to change role (e.g., to administrator) by updating their user profile.

01What is this vulnerability?

An privilege escalation issue was discovered in Scada-LTS 2.7.1.1 build 2948559113 allows remote attackers, authenticated in the application as a low-privileged user to change role (e.g., to administrator) by updating their user profile.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-12T15:59:37.945Z

09References

• scada-lts.org — http://scada-lts.org/
• github.com — https://github.com/SCADA-LTS/Scada-LTS/releases
• m3n0sd0n4ld.blogspot.com — https://m3n0sd0n4ld.blogspot.com/2022/11/scada-lts-privilege-escalation-cve-2022…