RuggedCom Rugged Operating System (ROS) contains hard-coded user account with predictable password

Overview RuggedCom Rugged Operating System ROS contains a hard-coded user account with a predictable password. Description RuggedCom Rugged Operating System ROS, used in RuggedCom network infrastructure devices, contains a hard-coded user account named "factory" that cannot be disabled. The...

OSIsoft PI OPC DA Interface Buffer Overflow

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from OSIsoft concerning a stack-based buffer overflow in the PI OPC DA Interface software that could cause the software to crash or allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability was discovered during a software assessment requested b...

No Patch Coming for Newly Announced Vulnerabilities in ABB Legacy Products

Two independent researchers who’ve been warning of the threat of serious attacks against bug-riddled ICS and SCADA systems today issued an alert through ICS-CERT that vulnerabilities in ABB products could lead to DoS attacks or allow an attacker to remotely launch malicious code. No patch is...

Invensys Wonderware InTouch 10 DLL Hijack

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-177-01P on the US-CERT Portal on July 05, 2012. This web page release was delayed to provide the vendor time to contact customers concerning this information. Independent researcher Carlos Mario Penagos Hollmann has identified an uncontrolled...

Wonderware SuiteLink Unallocated Unicode String Vulnerability

Overview This Advisory is a follow-up to the original ICS-CERT Alert titled ICS-ALERT-12-136-01 Wonderware SuiteLink Unallocated Unicode String that was published May 15, 2012 on the ICS-CERT web page. Independent researcher Luigi Auriemma identified a maliciously crafted Unicode string...

Innominate MGuard Weak HTTPS and SSH Keys

Overview An independent research group comprised of Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman identified an insufficient entropy vulnerability in Innominate’s mGuard network appliance product line. By impersonating the device, an attacker can obtain the credentials of...

RuggedCom Weak Cryptography for Password Vulnerability

Overview --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- This is an update to the original advisory titled ICSA-12-146-01—RuggedCom Weak Cryptography for Password Vulnerability that was published May 25, 2012, on the ICS-CERT Web page. Independent researcher Justin W. Clarke identified a default...

xArrow Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-12-065-01 xArrow Vulnerabilities that was published March 05, 2012. Independent security researcher Luigi Auriemma identified and released four security vulnerabilities, along with proof-of-concept code, in the xArrow software application without...

Emerson DeltaV Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-138-01P to the US-CERT secure portal on May 17, 2012, and released Update A on May 21, 2012. This web page release including Update A was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of the Securi...

Progea Movicon Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Overview Security researcher Dillon Beresford of IXIAhttp://www.ixiacom.com/, website last accessed May 10, 2012. has identified a memory corruption vulnerability in the Progea Movicon application. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker; however, no public exploits are currently...

Terry McCorkle

Terry McCorkle, a Seattle-based researcher presented the results of an independent study on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems SCADA and Industrial Control Systems ICS where he and his research partner Billy Rios attempted to find 100 bugs in 100 days. They wound up finding 1000+ bu...

WellinTech KingSCADA Insecure Password Encryption

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled “ICS-ALERT-12-020-06 - WellinTech KingSCADA Insecure Password Encryption Vulnerability” that was published January 20, 2012, on the ICS-CERT web page. Independent researchers Alexandr Polyakov and Alexey Sintsov from DSecRG identified an...

State of SCADA Security 'Laughable', Researchers Say

CANCUN–For people who follow the developments in the security and research communities, it’s easy to get discouraged by the current state of affairs, given the rash of serious hacks on certificate authorities, military networks and companies such as RSA and VeriSign. But, if you think things are...

More from Basecamp

The Project Basecamp presentation received a rousing response from the audience, many of whom are industrial control security experts who have long warned, quietly, about the woeful state of software security in the industry. But not everyone was enthused. Kevin Hemsley of ICS-CERT questioned...

Koyo Ecom Modules Vulnerabilities

Overview This Advisory is a follow-up to the ICS-CERT Alert titled “ICS-ALERT-12-020-05A—Koyo Ecom100 Vulnerabilities” that was originally published January 20, 2012, on the ICS-CERT web page and updated on February 14, 2012. ICS-CERT is aware of a public report of vulnerabilities with...

Siemens Scalance X Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from Siemens regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in the web interface of the Scalance X Industrial Ethernet switch. This vulnerability was reported to Siemens by Jürgen Bilberger from Daimler TSS GmbH. This vulnerability leaves the affected devices...

MICROSYS PROMOTIC Use After Free Vulnerability

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-11-333-01 - MICROSYS PROMOTIC Use-After-Free Vulnerability, released on the ICS-CERT Web site on November 28, 2011. Independent researcher Luigi Auriemma has identified and released proof of concept code POC for a use after free vulnerability in...

Certec atvise webMI2ADS Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the ICS-CERT alert titled ICS-ALERT-11-283-02 – Certec atvise webMI Vulnerabilities, released to the ICS-CERT web page on October 10, 2011. Independent researcher Luigi Auriemma has identified vulnerabilities in Certec’s webMI2ADS application. These...

Ecava IntegraXor SQL

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from independent security researcher Dan Rosenberg with Virtual Security Research VSR of an unauthenticated Structured Query Language SQL vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor human machine interface HMI product that could allow data leakage, data...

Researcher Alleges Siemens Cover-up Over Security Holes In Simatic Product

A month after an unknown gray hat hacker calling himself “pr0f” used a three character password to hack his way onto computers used to manage water treatment equipment in South Houston, Texas, a security researcher is accusing the company that makes the industrial control system ICS software,...