# WAGO: WBM Command Injection in multiple products

CVE record · `CVE-2023-1698`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2023-1698`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.8 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **CNA:** CERTVDE
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-78](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)
- **Tags:** [Command injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/command-injection.md)
- **Technologies:** [WAGO Compact Controller CC100](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-compact-controller-cc100.md) · [WAGO Edge Controller](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-edge-controller.md) · [WAGO PFC100](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-pfc100.md) · [WAGO PFC200](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-pfc200.md) · [WAGO Touch Panel 600 Advanced Line](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-touch-panel-600-advanced-line.md) · [WAGO Touch Panel 600 Marine Line](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-touch-panel-600-marine-line.md) · [WAGO Touch Panel 600 Standard Line](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wago-touch-panel-600-standard-line.md)
- **Published:** 15 May 2023
- **Updated:** 23 Jan 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CERTVDE) at 15 May 2023, 08:51 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.82 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: WAGO. Product: Compact Controller CC100.
  - affected: `FW20 to FW22, inclusive` (semver)
  - affected: `FW23`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: Edge Controller.
  - affected: `FW22`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: PFC100.
  - affected: `FW20 to FW22, inclusive` (semver)
  - affected: `FW23`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: PFC200.
  - affected: `FW20 to FW22, inclusive` (semver)
  - affected: `FW23`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: Touch Panel 600 Advanced Line.
  - affected: `FW22`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: Touch Panel 600 Marine Line.
  - affected: `FW22`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WAGO. Product: Touch Panel 600 Standard Line.
  - affected: `FW22`
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.8 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (CERTVDE)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.82, the 99th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 May 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2023-1698](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1698)
- [NVD: CVE-2023-1698](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1698)

### References from the CNA

- <https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2023-007/>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

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- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), `get_advisory` returns this record and `search_advisories` finds related ones. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2023-1698>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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