CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.4%
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with administrative privileges to access sensitive files in an unintended, undocumented way.
WAGO reports the following products are affected:
3.2.1 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere CWE-610
On affected Wago products a remote attacker with administrative privileges can access files which they already have access to through an undocumented local file inclusion. This access is logged in a different log file than expected.
CVE-2023-4089 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 2.7 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).
Floris Hendriks of Radboud University reported this vulnerability to CISA.
As general security measures strongly WAGO recommends:
CERT@VDE has published advisory VDE-2023-046 for this vulnerability.
CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability. CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.
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