Ecava IntegraXor ActiveX Directory Traversal

Overview Independent researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle have identified a Path Traversal vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor application. Ecava has produced an update that mitigates this vulnerability. The researchers have validated that the patch fixes this vulnerability. Affected...

Hunting vulnerabilities in SCADA systems, we are still too vulnerable to cyber attacks

Stuxnet case is considered by security expert the first concrete act of cyber warfare, a malware specifically designed to hit SCADA systems inside nuclear plants in Iran. The event has alerted the international security community on the risks related to the effects of a cyber attack against...

FBI Memo Shows Hackers Accessed Commercial HVAC Systems

An FBI memo says cyber intruders took advantage of weak credentialing in an industrial control system to gain control of a New Jersey air conditioning company’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. The cyber alert was issued July 23, 2012 but did not come to light until being posted...

Siemens Automation License Manager Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the Siemens Automation License Manager ALM. Siemens ProductCERT has identified an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerabilitySSA-783261, https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-783261.pdf, Web site...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...

GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT received a report from GE Intelligent Platforms and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI concerning multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications. These vulnerabilities were reported to ZDI by independent security researcher Luigi...

DHS Warns ICS, SCADA Owners About Increase in Malicious Activity

An alert from the Department of Homeland Security late last week urges private- and public-sector industrial control system ICS owners to be proactive in auditing the security, particularly, authentication controls of their systems. The alert is in response to a growing concern over the number of...

7-Technologies Termis DLL Hijacking

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-025-02P on the US-CERT secure portal on January 25, 2012. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of the Security Research and Service Institute−Information and...

Ocean Data Systems Dream Reports XSS and Write Access Violation Vulnerabilities

Overview Independent researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle identified cross-site scripting XSS and write access violation vulnerabilities in Ocean Data Systems Dream Report application. ICS-CERT has coordinated these vulnerabilities with Ocean Data Systems, which has produced a new version th...

Schneider Electric Quantum Ethernet Module Hard-Coded Credentials

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update B Part 1 of 3 -------- This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-12-018-01A Schneider Electric Quantum Ethernet Module Hard-Coded Credentials that was published on June 04, 2013, on the ICS-CERT Web site. It is also a follow-up to the...

Kaspersky Lab Developing Secure Operating System for SCADA

Eugene Kaspersky is working with his engineers at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab to create a secure-by-design OS for ICS. In an interview Kaspersky said " It's true no one else ever tried to make a secure operating system. This may sound weird because of the many efforts Microsoft, Apple and...

Eugene Kaspersky Unveils Plans for New Secure SCADA OS

Attacks against SCADA and industrial-control systems have become a major concern for private companies as well as government agencies, with executives and officials worried about the potential effects of a major compromise. Security experts in some circles have been warning about the possible...

ING. Punzenberger COPA-DATA GMBH DoS Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-013-01P on the US-CERT secure portal on January 13, 2012. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of the Security Research and Service Institute--Information and...

ReVuln Emerges as New Player in Vulnerability Sales Market

It’s getting difficult these days to keep track of all of the companies, public and otherwise, that are buying and selling vulnerabilities or information on bugs, and now there’s another group on the scene: ReVuln. But, unlike other companies in the industry, ReVuln is mostly focusing its efforts...

SCADA Hacking : Exploit released to Hack Solar Energy Plants

ICS-CERT - Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has released the Advisory titled ICS-ALERT-12-284-01 - Sinapsi eSolar Light Multiple Vulnerabilities. They Report about report multiple vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept PoC exploit code that affecting the Sinapsi eSolar Ligh...

3S CoDeSys Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert update, ICS-ALERT-11-336-01A 3S CoDeSys Vulnerabilities, which was released on the ICS-CERT Web page on December 02, 2011. Security researcher Celil Unuver SignalSec LLC and independent researcher Luigi Auriemma have identified vulnerabilities in...

I-GEN opLYNX Central Authentication Bypass

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the i-GEN opLYNX Central software. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow partial leakage of information and access to system settings. Independent researcher Anthony Cicalla has identified an authenticati...

Carlo Gavazzi EOS Box Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for multiple vulnerabilities that impact the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has identified two vulnerabilities in the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has produced a firmware...

Out-of-bounds

The iCalendar component in gwwww1.dll in GroupWise Internet Agent GWIA in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before Support Pack 3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and daemon crash via a crafted date-time string in a .ics attachment...

CVE-2010-5251

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse 1 nnoteswc.dll or 2 nlsxbe.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .vcf, .vcs, or .ics file. NOTE: the provenance of this...