CVE-2022-43377 — A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerabili

A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability exists that could cause account takeover when a brute force attack is performed on the account.

01What is this vulnerability?

A CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability exists that could cause account takeover when a brute force attack is performed on the account.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Schneider Electric	NetBotz 4	355/450/455/550/570 — V4.7.0 and prior

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: 2023-04-18T19:56:14.189Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-05T20:24:49.039Z

09References

• download.schneider-electric.com — https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_Doc_Ref=SEVD-2022-312-01&p_enDoc…