CVE-2023-33868PiiGAB M-Bus Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.66%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The number of login attempts is not limited. This could allow an attacker to perform a brute force on HTTP basic authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
- affected 900S
What to do
Solution: PiiGAB created updated software to address these issues and encourages users to install the new update on their own gateway. The new software packages can be downloaded directly from the web UI in the gateway and older gateways can download it from Piigab.se http://www.piigab.se/ or Piigab.com https://www.piigab.com/ .
Workaround: CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities. Specifically, users should: * Ensure the least-privilege user principle is followed. * Set unique and secure passwords for all products requiring authentication. * Minimize network exposure for all control system devices and/or systems, and ensure they are not accessible from the Internet https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-10-301-01 . * Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolate them from business networks. * When remote access is required, use secure methods, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), recognizing VPNs may have vulnerabilities and should be updated to the most current version available. Also recognize VPN is only as secure as its connected devices.
References
References1
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-2023-38018 (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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