1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- CVSS v4 8.5
- ATTENTION: Low attack complexity
- Vendor: Schneider Electric
- Equipment: EcoStruxure™
- Vulnerability: Improper Privilege Management
2. RISK EVALUATION
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a local privilege escalation, which could result in loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability of the engineering workstation.
3. TECHNICAL DETAILS
3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS
The following versions of EcoStruxure™ are affected:
- EcoStruxure™ Process Expert: Versions 2020R2, 2021 & 2023 (prior to v4.8.0.5715)
- EcoStruxure™ Process Expert for AVEVA System Platform: Versions 2020R2, 2021 & 2023
3.2 VULNERABILITY OVERVIEW
3.2.1 IMPROPER PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT CWE-269
An improper privilege management vulnerability exists for two services, one managing audit trail data and the other acting as server managing client request, that could cause a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of engineering workstation when an attacker with standard privilege modifies the executable path of the windows services. To be exploited, services need to be restarted.
CVE-2025-0327 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2025-0327. A base score of 8.5 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L
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