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...

Hard-Coded Password Leaves GarrettCom Switches Open to Attack, ICS-CERT Warns

The Department of Homeland Security is warning users of some of GarrettCom’s switches that there is a hard-coded password in a default account on the devices, which are deployed in a number of critical infrastructure industries, that could allow an attacker to take control of them. A researcher a...

RuggedCom Devices Have Hard-Coded SSL Keys

Siemens subsidiary RuggedCom’s Rugged Operating System ROS contains a vulnerability that could give an attacker the ability to decrypt SSL traffic between RuggedCom networking equipment and end-users, according to an ICS-CERT alert. Justin W. Clarke, a security researcher at Cylance Inc., disclos...

ABB AC500 PLC Webserver CoDeSys Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT has been notified of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ABB AC500 PLC Webserver application. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a denial of service DoS, affecting the availability of the service. This vulnerability is related to ICS-CERT Advisory,...

ICS-CERT Warns of Serious Flaws in Tridium Niagara Software

The DHS and ICS-CERT are warning users of some popular Tridium Niagara AX industrial control system software about a series of major vulnerabilities in the applications that are remotely exploitable and could be used to take over vulnerable systems. The bugs, discovered by researchers Billy Rios...

Siemens SiPass Server Buffer Overflow

OVERVIEW This advisory provides mitigation details provided by Siemens for a vulnerability that impacts the Siemens SiPass server. Siemens has reported a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Siemens SiPass server. Lucas Apa of IOActive discovered this vulnerability and reported it directly to...

Siemens Patches Stuxnet-Like SCADA Bugs

German industrial control system manufacturer Siemens announced Monday that it had patched holes in some of its products that appear to resemble holes used by the famous Stuxnet worm in 2010. If left unpatched, vulnerabilities in the company’s Simatic STEP 7 and Simatic PCS 7 software could have...

Siemens Simatic S7-1200 CPU START/STOP Module

Exploit Title: Siemens Simatic S7 1200 CPU command module Date: 7-13-2012 Exploit Author: Dillon Beresford Vendor Homepage: http://www.siemens.com/ Tested on: Siemens Simatic S7-1200 PLC CVE : None require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Siemens Simatic S7-1200 CPU START/STOP Module', 'Description'...

WellinTech KingView User Credentials Not Securely Hashed

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled ICS-ALERT-12-212-02 WellinTech KingView User Credentials Not Securely Hashed that was published July 30, 2012, on the ICS-CERT Web page. Dr. Wesley McGrew of Mississippi State University has identified a default credential vulnerability in...

Siemens Simatic S7-300/400 CPU START/STOP Module

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: Siemens Simatic S7 300/400 CPU command module Date: 7-13-2012 Exploit Author: Dillon Beresford Vendor Homepage: http://www.siemens.com/ Tested on: Siemens Simatic S7-300 PLC CVE : None require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3...

Optimalog Optima PLC Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview Independent researcher Luigi Auriemma identified a NULL Pointer Dereference and an Infinite Loop and released proof-of-concept exploit code for Optimalog’s Optima PLC application without coordination with ICS-CERT, the vendor, or any other coordinating entity known to ICS-CERT. Optimalog...