Critical Flaws Affecting GE's Universal Relay Pose Threat to Electric Utilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has warned of critical security shortcomings in GE's Universal Relay UR family of power management devices. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, reboot the UR, gain...

Critical Flaws Affecting GE's Universal Relay Pose Threat to Electric Utilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has warned of critical security shortcomings in GE's Universal Relay UR family of power management devices. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, reboot the UR, gain...

CVE-2017-7905

A Weak Cryptography for Passwords issue was discovered in General Electric GE Multilin SR 750 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 760 Feeder Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Version 7.47; SR 469 Motor Protection Relay, firmware versions prior to Versio...

CVE-2017-7905

The CVE covers a weakness in cryptographic handling of passwords in GE Multilin protection relays (SR series, UR/URPlus). A non-random initialization vector was used for ciphertext passwords, making them vulnerable to dictionary attacks. Password ciphertext could be obtained from the front LCD or...