CVE-2023-6448
9.8, critical Known exploitedUnitronics Vision PLC and HMI Insecure Default Password Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 2% higher than 81.2% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 5 Dec 20232 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 11 Dec 2023. US federal agencies had to remediate by 18 Dec 2023, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
Unitronics VisiLogic before version 9.9.00, used in Vision and Samba PLCs and HMIs, uses a default administrative password. An unauthenticated attacker with network access can take administrative control of a vulnerable system.
Details
- Vendor
- Unitronics
- Product
- VisiLogic
- Weakness
- CWE-1188 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 5
Advisories 3
- downloads.unitronicsplc.com /Sites/plc/Technical_Library/Unitronics-Cybersecurity-Advisory-2023-001-CVE-2023-6448.pdf (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /news-events/alerts/2023/11/28/exploitation-unitronics-plcs-used-water-and-wastewater-systems (opens in a new tab)
- unitronicsplc.com /cyber_security_vision-samba/ (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.