Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements
CVE-2023-31172

5.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Status: Sel-5030 Acselerator Quickset Software
Vendor: CVE Published:; 31 August 2023

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What is CVE-2023-31172?

An Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements vulnerability in the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories SEL-5030 acSELerator QuickSet Software could allow an attacker to embed instructions that could be executed by an authorized device operator.

See Instruction Manual Appendix A and Appendix E dated 20230615 for more details.

This issue affects SEL-5030 acSELerator QuickSet Software: through 7.1.3.0.

Affected Version(s)

SEL-5030 acSELerator QuickSet Software Windows 0 <= 7.1.3.0

References

https://selinc.com/support/security-notifications/externa...

https://www.nozominetworks.com/blog/

CVSS V3.1

Score:

5.9

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

None

Integrity:

High

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Local

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

Required

Scope:

Changed

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Timeline

Vulnerability published
Aug 31, 2023
Vulnerability Reserved
Apr 24, 2023

Credit

Gabriele Quagliarella of Nozomi Networks