CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2023-33873

HIGH

7.8

CVSS v3

Description

This privilege escalation vulnerability, if exploited, cloud allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to escalate to System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in complete compromise of the target machine.

How to fix

Remediation Available

batch managementNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

communication driversNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

historianNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

intouchNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

manufacturing execution systemNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

mobile operatorNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

plant scadaNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

recipe managementNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

system platformNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

work tasksNVD

Affected:< 2020Fixed in:2020CVE-2023-33873derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.24%probability of exploitation in 30 days

15thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 15% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

aveva.com

Third-Party Advisory1

cisa.gov

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-250 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2024-1222	High	8.6	64%	-	Fix
CVE-2025-12420	Critical	9.8	45%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-38813	High	7.5	17%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2025-34515	Critical	9.8	7.3%	-	-
CVE-2026-29205	High	8.6	7.2%	-	-
CVE-2019-16765	High	7.4	4.7%	-	Fix

Embed a live status badge for CVE-2023-33873

Markdown

[![CVE-2023-33873](https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2023-33873.svg)](https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2023-33873)

HTML

<a href="https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2023-33873"><img src="https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2023-33873.svg" alt="CVE-2023-33873"></a>

Find and fix vulnerabilities across your fleet

TridentStack Control continuously scans your Windows, macOS, and Linux fleet for known vulnerabilities, prioritizes them by severity and active exploitation, and patches them automatically.

This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.