CVE-2022-4987 - Hirschmann Industrial HiVision External Application Path Hijacking Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution

CVE-2022-4987 - Hirschmann Industrial HiVision External Application Path Hijacking Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution

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CVE ID :CVE-2022-4987
Published : April 3, 2026, 8:15 p.m. | 52 minutes ago
Description :Hirschmann Industrial HiVision version 08.1.03 prior to 08.1.04 and 08.2.00 contains a vulnerability in the execution of user-configured external applications that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary binaries. Due to insufficient path sanitization, an attacker can place a malicious binary in the execution path of a configured external application, causing it to be executed instead of the intended application. This can result in execution with elevated privileges depending on the context of the external application.
Severity: 8.4 | HIGH
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