CVE-2023-5751 — A local attacker with low privileges can read and modify any users files and cau

A local attacker with low privileges can read and modify any users files and cause a DoS in the working directory of the affected products due to exposure of resource to wrong sphere.

01What is this vulnerability?

A local attacker with low privileges can read and modify any users files and cause a DoS in the working directory of the affected products due to exposure of resource to wrong sphere.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
CODESYS	CODESYS Control Win (SL)	0
CODESYS	CODESYS Development System V3	0
CODESYS	CODESYS Edge Gateway for Windows	0
CODESYS	CODESYS Gateway for Windows	0
CODESYS	CODESYS HMI (SL)	0

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: 2024-06-04T08:54:22.046Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T08:07:32.848Z

09References

• cert.vde.com — https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-027
• customers.codesys.com — https://customers.codesys.com/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=18354&token=f3e92a942…