CVE-2021-29298

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.8%

Medium (5.3) in emerson proficy machine edition. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper Input Validation in Emerson GE Automation Proficy Machine Edition v8.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and application crash via crafted traffic from a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack to the component "FrameworX.exe"in the module "fxVPStatcTcp.dll".

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2021-07-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

emerson:proficy_machine_edition

References

https://github.com/boofish/GE_Proficy_Machine_Edition_vul
https://github.com/boofish/GE_Proficy_Machine_Edition_vul/blob/main/vul2/vul2_steps.pdf
https://github.com/boofish/GE_Proficy_Machine_Edition_vul
https://github.com/boofish/GE_Proficy_Machine_Edition_vul/blob/main/vul2/vul2_steps.pdf

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