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CVE-2023-29447Insufficiently Protected Credentials in PTC's Kepware KEPServerEX
- 5.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability in KEPServerEX could allow an adversary to capture user credentials as the web server uses basic authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Dragos
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| DragosCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 69% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 6.14.263.0
PTC · ThingWorx Kepware Server
- affected ≤ 6.14.263.0
PTC · ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity
- affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.5
References
References3
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-243-03 (opens in a new tab)government-resourcex_transferred
- https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs399528 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.dragos.com/advisory/ptcs-kepserverex-vulnerabilities/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-33016 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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