CVE-2016-5787

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Published 2016-07-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
4.6
VIR risk
6.3

Description

General Electric (GE) Digital Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY before 8.2 SIM 27 mishandles service DACLs, which allows local users to modify a service configuration via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov — https://ge-ip.force.com/communities/en_US/Article/GE-Digital-Security-Advisory-GED-16-01

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gecimplicity{"endExcluding":"8.2"}8.2
gecimplicity8.2

References

CWEs

CWE-668

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.