CVE-2022-29962· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

The Emerson DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS) controllers and IO cards through 2022-04-29 misuse passwords.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

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: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
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

The Emerson DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS) controllers and IO cards through 2022-04-29 misuse passwords. FTP has hardcoded credentials (but may often be disabled in production). This affects S-series, P-series, and CIOC/EIOC nodes. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2014-2350.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Hard-coded credentials

BDU:2022-03837

Published: Jul 26, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 13th percentile
CWE: CWE-798

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

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ProductVersion

Vendor	Product	CPE
emerson	deltav distributed control system sq controller firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:deltav_distributed_control_system_sq_controller_firmware
emerson	deltav distributed control system sq controller	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:deltav_distributed_control_system_sq_controller
emerson	deltav distributed control system sx controller firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:deltav_distributed_control_system_sx_controller_firmware
emerson	deltav distributed control system sx controller	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:deltav_distributed_control_system_sx_controller
emerson	se4002s1t2b6 high side 40-pin mass i\/o terminal block firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:se4002s1t2b6_high_side_40-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block_firmware
emerson	se4002s1t2b6 high side 40-pin mass i\/o terminal block	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:se4002s1t2b6_high_side_40-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block
emerson	se4003s2b4 16-pin mass i\/o terminal block firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:se4003s2b4_16-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block_firmware
emerson	se4003s2b4 16-pin mass i\/o terminal block	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:se4003s2b4_16-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block
emerson	se4003s2b524-pin mass i\/o terminal block firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:se4003s2b524-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block_firmware
emerson	se4003s2b524-pin mass i\/o terminal block	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:se4003s2b524-pin_mass_i\/o_terminal_block
emerson	se4017p0 h1 i\/o interface card and terminl block firmware	cpe:2.3:o:emerson:se4017p0_h1_i\/o_interface_card_and_terminl_block_firmware
emerson	se4017p0 h1 i\/o interface card and terminl block	cpe:2.3:h:emerson:se4017p0_h1_i\/o_interface_card_and_terminl_block

and 36 more

Affected versions

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

emerson deltav distributed control system sq controller firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson deltav distributed control system sx controller firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4002s1t2b6 high side 40-pin mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4003s2b4 16-pin mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4003s2b524-pin mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4017p0 h1 i/o interface card and terminl block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4017p1 h1 i/o card with integrated power firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4019p0 simplex h1 4-port plus fieldbus i/o interface with terminalblock firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4026 virtual i/o module 2 firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4027 virtual i/o module 2 firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4032s1t2b8 high side 40-pin do mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4037p0 h1 i/o interface card and terminl block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4037p1 redundant h1 i/o card with integrated power and terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4039p0 redundant h1 4-port plus fieldbus i/o interface with terminalblock firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4052s1t2b6 high side 40-pin mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4082s1t2b8 high side 40-pin do mass i/o terminal block firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4100 simplex ethernet i/o card (eioc) assembly firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4101 simplex ethernet i/o card (eioc) assembly firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson se4801t0x redundant wireless i/o card firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive
emerson ve4103 modbus tcp interface for ethernet connected i/o (eioc) firmwareup to 2022-04-29 inclusive

Same product

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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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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

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

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

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

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

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

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

For convenience in support or manufacturing, an account that is identical on every device is embedded in the software. Credentials learned from one device work on all of them.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-798 class

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

Vulnerable

1const SUPPORT_USER = "support";2const SUPPORT_PASS = "hardcoded-password";

Fixed

1const creds = await provisioning.deviceCredentials(deviceId);2if (creds.mustRotate) await forcePasswordChange(deviceId);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

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

www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-181-03

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www.forescout.com/blog/

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