Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This vulnerability means certain Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager control protocols lacked authentication. Anyone able to communicate with the affected ports could potentially perform sensitive safety-system actions, including changing controller state, logic, files, or I/O. The provided sources do not show confirmed exploitation or a specific patch level.
Executive priority
Prioritize this as a safety and operations risk, not a routine IT bug. If affected systems are present and reachable, leadership should require immediate OT owner review and vendor-aligned containment planning.
Technical view
CVE-2022-30313 concerns unauthenticated functionality in Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager proprietary protocols through 2022-05-06. Experion TCP on 51000/TCP and Safety Builder on 51010/TCP expose functions for I/O manipulation, file operations, controller start/stop, logic transfer, and time changes. Some actions depend on physical keyswitch position.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely in operational technology environments running Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager where 51000/TCP or 51010/TCP are reachable by unauthorized hosts. The bundle does not identify internet exposure or specific deployment counts.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not cite active exploitation, and CISA KEV status is false. Risk depends on network reachability to the proprietary protocol ports and, for some functions, the Safety Manager physical keyswitch position.
Researcher notes
Evidence supports missing authentication on two proprietary protocol surfaces with high-impact control functions. Public source data here lacks CVSS, CWE, affected version detail beyond through 2022-05-06, exploit confirmation, and definitive remediation status.
Mitigation direction
- Review Honeywell FSCT-2022-0051 and CISA ICSA-22-207-02 for supported mitigations.
- Treat access to 51000/TCP and 51010/TCP as safety-critical network exposure.
- Limit communication with affected ports to explicitly authorized engineering and control-system hosts.
- Verify Safety Manager physical keyswitch positions match operational policy.
- Check vendor guidance before assuming a patch or compensating control is sufficient.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager systems through 2022-05-06.
- Confirm whether 51000/TCP and 51010/TCP are reachable from unauthorized network zones.
- Review firewall, allowlist, and remote-access paths into Safety Manager networks.
- Validate physical keyswitch state and change-control records for affected controllers.
- Check controller configuration, logic, file, and I/O change logs for unexplained activity.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.forescout.com/blog/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-207-02CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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