CVE-2023-29445

Uncontrolled Search Path Element in PTC's Kepware KEPServerEX

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 10, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2025
Reserved: Apr 6, 2023

Description

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability (DLL hijacking) has been discovered that could allow a locally authenticated adversary to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Dragos

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kepware KEPServerEXPTC	6.14.263.0 and earlierAffected
ThingWorx Kepware ServerPTC	6.14.263.0 and earlierAffected
ThingWorx Industrial ConnectivityPTC	8.0 through 8.5Affected

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-243-03government-resource
https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs399528vendor-advisory
https://www.dragos.com/advisory/ptcs-kepserverex-vulnerabilities/

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