9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
10 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.974 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%
**ATTENTION:**Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit.
Vendor: Siemens
Equipment: SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit (PCU), SIMOTION P320
Vulnerability: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Siemens reports that the vulnerability affects Siemens Industrial products which use Intel processors (Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7 and Intel XEON):
Please see Siemens Security Advisory SSA-874235 for the full list of affected versions.
A remote attacker can gain system privileges by exploiting this vulnerability.
Siemens has provided firmware updates for the various industrial PCs to address this vulnerability. It can be found on their web site at the following location:
<https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109747626>
Siemens is working on updates for the remaining products, and recommends that users implement the following mitigations:
Siemens strongly recommends users protect network access to the non-perimeter industrial products with appropriate mechanisms. Siemens also advises that users configure the operational environment according to Siemens’ Operational Guidelines for Industrial Security:
<https://www.siemens.com/cert/operational-guidelines-industrial-security>
For more a specific list of affected products and more detailed mitigation instructions, please see Siemens Security Advisory SSA-874235 at the following location:
<http://www.siemens.com/cert/advisories>
For more information about this vulnerability, please see Intel Security Advisory – INTEL-SA-00075 at the following location:
<https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA->00075&languageid=en-fr
NCCIC/ICS-CERT recommends that users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability. Specifically, users should:
ICS-CERT reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
ICS-CERT also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS-CERT web page. Several recommended practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available in the ICS‑CERT Technical Information Paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies, that is available for download from the ICS-CERT web site.
Organizations observing any suspected malicious activity should follow their established internal procedures and report their findings to ICS-CERT for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploits specifically target this vulnerability.
Unprivileged local or remote attackers can gain system privileges to provisioned Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability (ISM) and Intel Small Business Technology (SBT).
CVE-2017-5689 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Maksim Malyutin from Embedi reported this issue to Intel.
Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Chemical, Commercial Facilities, Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Water and Wastewater Systems
Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide
Company Headquarters Location: Germany
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9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
10 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.974 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%