CODESYS: Use after free vulnerability through corrupted project files
Priority LOW 24CWE-416Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-416 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
An unauthenticated local attacker may trick a user to open corrupted project files to crash the system due to use after free vulnerability.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00178 7th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed CODESYS Development System V2.3 (CODESYS): 2.3.9.73
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA CODESYS Development System V2.3 (CODESYS) Fixed in 2.3.9.73
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
CODESYS Development System V2.3 2.3.9.73
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2023-27122 CODESYS: Out-of-bounds write through corrupted project filesPriority LOW 35
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-49676
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q4h3-rm8f-c8qr
References
More CODESYS vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-12888 CODESYS Control Runtime system before 3.5.17.10 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-10180 Stack-based buffer overflow in CODESYS V3 web server CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-13604 CODESYS V2 web server: crafted requests could trigger a null pointer dereference (DoS) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-08257 CODESYS V3 web server before 3.5.15.40, as used in CODESYS Control runtime systems, has a buffer overflow. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-13592 CODESYS 3 web server before 3.5.15.20, as distributed with CODESYS Control runtime systems, has a Buffer Overflow. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-03937 Unrestricted file upload in 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH CODESYS Web Server CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-49676 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-49676 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-q4h3-rm8f-c8qr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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