CVE-2023-49959

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2023-49959 · Published 26/02/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-49959 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting profinet-inspektor nt (indu-sol).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.4.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
profinet-inspektor nt indu-sol	`< 2.4.1`	`2.4.1`

Description

In Indo-Sol PROFINET-INspektor NT through 2.4.0, a command injection vulnerability in the gedtupdater service of the firmware allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands with root privileges via a crafted filename parameter in POST requests to the /api/updater/ctrl/start_update endpoint.

References

code-white.com/public-vulnerability-list · Third Party Advisory
indu-sol.com/en/products/profinet/diagnostics/profinet-inspektorr-nt · Product

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