Two CVSS 10.0 Bugs in Red Lion RTUs Could Hand Hackers Full Industrial Control

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two critical security flaws impacting Red Lion Sixne t remote terminal unit RTU products that, if successfully exploited, could result in code execution with the highest privileges. The shortcomings, tracked as CVE-2023-40151 andCVE-2023-42770 , are both...

CVE-2023-42770

CVE-2023-42770 affects Red Lion SixTRAK and VersaTRAK RTUs. An authentication bypass occurs because Sixnet UDR messages on UDP/TCP are treated differently: UDP prompts for authentication, while TCP accepts without challenge. This enables an attacker to bypass authentication and, in conjunction wi...