Schneider Electric StruxureWare Building Expert Plaintext Credentials Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Artyom Kurbatov has identified a cleartext transmission vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare Building Expert product. Schneider Electric has produced a new firmware version that mitigates this vulnerability. Artyom Kurbatov has tested the new firmware...

Advantech WebAccess Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Ivan Sanchez from Nullcode Team has identified a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Advantech’s WebAccess application. Advantech has produced a new version to mitigate this vulnerability. Ivan Sanchez has tested the new version to validate that it resolves the vulnerability...

Plaintext Credentials Threaten RLE Wind Turbine HMI

A week after disclosing a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in small wind turbines manufactured by a company called XZERES, a security researcher has discovered a serious bug in the human-machine interface for turbines made by German company RLE International GmbH. Researcher Maxim Rupp...

Yokogawa Multiple Products Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Yokogawa Electric Corporation has notified NCCIC/ICS-CERT of stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple Yokogawa products. Yokogawa has released product revisions that mitigate the vulnerabilities for many of the vulnerable products. These vulnerabilities could be exploited...

Researcher Finds CSRF Bug in Wind Turbine Software

UPDATE–Wind turbines have been popping up across the United States in great numbers of late, and many of them are connected to the Internet. That, of course, means that these turbines are going to be natural targets for attackers and researchers. A security researcher named Maxim Rupp has...

Innominate mGuard VPN Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Innominate mGuard has self identified a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in the Innominate mGuard device. Inominate has produced a patch to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following mGuard versions are affected:...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 CSRF Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Siemens has identified an CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in the SIMATIC S7‑1200 CPUs. This vulnerability was reported directly to Siemens by Ralf Spenneberg, Hendrik Schwartke, and Maik Brüggemann from OpenSource Training. Siemens has produced a firmware update to mitigate...

Rockwell Automation Patches Buffer Overflow in ICS App

There is a stack buffer overflow in a Rockwell Automation application that’s used to enable communications in industrial control applications used in manufacturing, energy, water,and other environments. The vulnerability is in the RSLinx Classic product and it can be used to crash the application...

Siemens SIPROTEC Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Siemens has identified a denial-of-service vulnerability in the SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact devices. This vulnerability was reported directly to Siemens by Victor Nikitin from i‑Grids LLC Russia. Siemens has produced a new firmware update to mitigate this vulnerability. This...

SMA Solar Technology AG Sunny WebBox Hard-Coded Account Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory titled ICSA-15-181-02 SMA Solar Technology AG Sunny WebBox Hard-Coded Account Vulnerability that was published September 3, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Aleksandr Timorin of PT Security has identified a hard-coded account...

Schneider Electric Patches Easily Exploitable Bugs in HMI Products

There are a series of vulnerabilities related to credentials and authentication in two of Schneider Electric’s HMI products, and an attacker who exploits them may be able to run arbitrary code. The bugs lie in Schneider’s InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition products, both of which are...

GE Fixes Buffer Overflow in DTM Library

GE has released a fix for a vulnerability in a library that’s used in several of its products deployed in critical infrastructure areas. The flaw in the HART Device Type Manager library could allow an attacker to crash affected applications or run arbitrary code. The vulnerability in the DTM...

Hospira Symbiq Infusion System Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on June 23, 2015, and is being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Billy Rios identified a vulnerability in Hospira’s Symbiq Infusion System, which can be exploited to remotely control th...

Wind River VXWorks TCP Predictability Vulnerability in ICS Devices (Update B)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-15-169-01A Wind River VxWorks TCP Predictability Vulnerability in ICS Devices that was published November 5, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Raheem Beyah, David Formby, and San Shin Jung of Georgia Tech, via a...

XZERES 442SR Wind Turbine CSRF Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Maxim Rupp has identified a cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in XZERES’s 442SR turbine generator operating system OS. XZERES has produced a patch to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The...

Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities (Supplement)

OVERVIEW This advisory supplement is to accompany the NCCIC/ICS-CERT advisory titled ICSA-14-353-01 Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities that was published December 19, 2014, on the ICS‑CERT web site. Please refer to the original advisory for all the details of the vulnerabilities. The purpose o...

Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities (Supplement Update A)

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- This advisory supplement is to accompany the NCCIC/ICS-CERT advisory titled ICSA-14-353-01C Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities that was published February 5, 2015, on the ICS‑CERT web site. --------- End Update A Part 1 of 2 ----------...

Guidance for Defending Against Destructive Malware

The Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency NSA has released a report on Defensive Best Practices for Destructive Malware. This report details several steps network defenders can take to detect, contain, and minimize destructive malware infections. US-CERT encourages use...

Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC FX-Series Controllers Denial of Service

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on May 26, 2015, and is being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security has identified a denial of service DoS vulnerability in the Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.,...

Schneider Electric OFS Server Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 4 -------- This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-141-01 Schneider Electric OFS Server Vulnerability that was published May 21, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Ivan Sanchez from Nullcode Team has identified tw...