ICS Vulnerabilities Afffect Critical Infrastructure Security

Industrial control systems manufacturer, Siemens, has released new versions of its SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family, resolving six security vulnerabilities in that product, and its SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC programmable logic controller, resolving an addition two vulnerabilities there. These patches are...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

Schneider Electric Patches SCADA, ICS Security Vulnerabilities

The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT last week issued advisories warning of serious vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric SCADA gear. Schneider Electric is a supplier of energy management control products that are used in a number of critical industries in North...

OpenSSL Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the updated alert titled ICS-ALERT-14-099-01E Situational Awareness Alert for OpenSSL Vulnerability that was published April 29, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. The OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was independently identified by both Neel Mehta of...

Yokogawa Multiple Products Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Yokogawa reports that several buffer overflow vulnerabilities affect several of its products. Juan Vazquez of Rapid7 Inc.,Rapid7 Inc., http://www.rapid7.com, web site last accessed May 13, 2014. and independent researcher Julian Vilas Diaz reported to CERT/CC that they identified several...

Attacking ICS Systems 'Like Hacking in the 1980s'

PUNTA CANA–Here’s how nuts the world of ICS security is: Jonathan Pollet, a security consultant who specializes in ICS systems, was at a Texas amusement park recently and the ride he was waiting for was malfunctioning. The operator told him the ride used a Siemens PLC as part of the control syste...

KingScada kxClientDownload.ocx ActiveX Remote Code Execution

This module abuses the kxClientDownload.ocx ActiveX control distributed with WellingTech KingScada. The ProjectURL property can be abused to download and load arbitrary DLLs from arbitrary locations, leading to arbitrary code execution, because of a dangerous usage of LoadLibrary. Due to the natu...

Electric Cybersecurity Regulations Have Serial Problem

A class of SCADA vulnerabilities discussed at a recent conference is getting attention not only for the risks they pose to master control systems at electric utilities, but also for illuminating a dangerous gap in important critical infrastructure regulations. Researchers Adam Crain and Chris...

InduSoft Web Studio Directory Traversal Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on April 17, 2014, and is now being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. ICS-CERT received a report from the Zero Day Initiative ZDI concerning a Directory Traversal vulnerability affecting the InduSoft Web Stud...

Zero Day Vulnerability Patched in SCADA HMI Software

Malaysian SCADA software company Ecava released a patch yesterday for a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship human machine interface HMI that was publicly disclosed at a conference this week. The patch repairs a buffer overflow vulnerability in the company’s IntegraXor Web-based HMI software. H...

DHS Warns of Schneider Electric ClearSCADA Vulnerability

The Department of Homeland Security is warning the maintainers of industrial control systems ICS about a remotely exploitable uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s ClearSCADA software. Schneider Electric says that it has developed a new version of ClearSCADA that...

Progea Movicon SCADA Information Disclosure Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Celil Ünüver of SignalSEC Ltd. has identified an information disclosure vulnerability in the Progea Movicon application. Progea has produced a new version that mitigates this vulnerability. The researcher has tested the new version to validate that it resolves the vulnerability. This...

Siemens Fixes Authentication Bugs in Scalance X-200 Switches

Researchers have discovered two serious vulnerabilities in industrial Ethernet switches manufactured by Siemens that could enable attackers to perform unauthorized actions on the switches without authentication. One of the bugs allows attackers to hijack Web sessions and the other enables them to...

WellinTech KingSCADA Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

OVERVIEW An anonymous researcher working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative has identified a stack-based buffer overflow in the WellinTech KingSCADA Stack. WellinTech has produced a patch that mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following...

USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software (Update C)

Overview VirusBlokAda, an antivirus vendor based in Belarus, announcedVirusBlokAda, http://www.anti-virus.by/en/tempo.shtml, website last visited July 15, 2010. the discovery of malware that uses a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows processing of shortcut files. The malware utilizes this...

Stuxnet Malware Mitigation (Update B)

Overview In July, ICS-CERT published an advisory and a series of updates regarding the Stuxnet malware entitled “ICSA-10-201 USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software.” Since then, ICS-CERT has continued analysis of the Stuxnet malware in an effort to determine more about its capabilities an...

Schneider Electric OPC Factory Server Buffer Overflow

OVERVIEW Researcher Wei Gao, formerly of IXIA, has identified a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Schneider Electric OPC Factory Server OFS application. Schneider Electric has produced a patch that mitigates this vulnerability. Wei Gao has tested the patch to validate that it resolves the...

Ecava IntegraXor Guest Account Information Disclosure Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on April 1, 2014, and is now being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Andrea Micalizzi, aka rgod, has identified an information disclosure vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor...

Siemens CP 1604 and CP 1616 Improper Access Control

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the Siemens CP 1604 and CP 1616 communication modules. Siemens has identified a vulnerability in the debugging interface of the CP 1604 and CP 1616 communications modules. Independent researchers Christopher...

Siemens WinCC 7.0 SP3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for vulnerabilities that impact the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC. Positive Technologies and Siemens ProductCERT have identified multiple vulnerabilities in the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC, which is used to configure SIMATIC operator devices. Siemens has...