CVE-2022-2336· NVD / CVE Program· CNA icscert

Softing Secure Integration Server Improper Authentication

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 63.9% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Softing Secure Integration Server, edgeConnector, and edgeAggregator software ships with the default administrator credentials as `admin` and password as `admin`. This allows Softing to log in to the server directly to perform administrative functions. Upon installation or upon first login, the application does not ask the user to change the `admin` password. There is no warning or prompt to ask the user to change the default password, and to change the password, many steps are required.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Aug 17, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 1.0% · 63th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.0%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 9.8
CNA · icscert: 9.8; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
softing	edgeaggregator	cpe:2.3:a:softing:edgeaggregator
softing	edgeconnector	cpe:2.3:a:softing:edgeconnector
softing	opc	cpe:2.3:a:softing:opc
softing	opc ua c\+\+ software development kit	cpe:2.3:a:softing:opc_ua_c\+\+_software_development_kit
softing	secure integration server	cpe:2.3:a:softing:secure_integration_server
softing	uagates	cpe:2.3:a:softing:uagates

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

softing edgeaggregator3.1
softing edgeconnector3.1
softing opc5.2
softing opc ua c++ software development kit6
softing secure integration server1.22
softing uagates1.74

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (icscert). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Softing edgeAggregator
- V3.10affected
Softing edgeConnector 840D
- V3.10affected
Softing edgeConnector Modbus
- V3.10affected
Softing edgeConnector Siemens
- V3.10affected
Softing Secure Integration Server
- V1.22affected

Same product

softing: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-38126Softing edgeAggregator Restore Configuration Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
49Plan
CVE-2022-2334Softing Secure Integration Server Uncontrolled Search Path Element
40Plan
CVE-2022-1373Softing Secure Integration Server Relative Path Traversal
40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-1748Aug 17, 2022 · Softing Secure Integration Server NULL Pointer Dereference
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-2335Aug 17, 2022 · Softing Secure Integration Server Integer Underflow
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-2337Aug 17, 2022 · Softing Secure Integration Server NULL Pointer Dereference
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Pedro Ribeiro and Radek Domanski, working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to Softing and CISA.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2022-13730 days apartSofting Secure Integration Server Relative Path Traversal
40Plan
CVE-2022-23340 days apartSofting Secure Integration Server Uncontrolled Search Path Element
40Plan

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

industrial.softing.com/fileadmin/psirt/downloads/syt-2022-6.html

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www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-04

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