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CVE-2024-22042

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 13, 2024 at 09:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorUnicam Fx

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Unicam FX (All versions). The windows installer agent used in affected product contains incorrect use of privileged APIs that trigger the Windows Console Host (conhost.exe) as a child process with SYSTEM privileges. This could be exploited by an attacker to perform a local privilege escalation attack.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Unicam Fx· Siemens
95%
All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-543502.html

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.8HIGHsiemens
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-648NVD-CWE-noinfo

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