Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. smartRTU and INEA ME-RTU Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in an OS Command (CVE-2019-14931)

critical Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 500598

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

An issue was discovered on Mitsubishi Electric ME-RTU devices through 2.02 and INEA ME-RTU devices through 3.0. An unauthenticated remote OS Command Injection vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the RTU due to the passing of unsafe user supplied data to the RTU's system shell. Functionality in mobile.php provides users with the ability to ping sites or IP addresses via Mobile Connection Test. When the Mobile Connection Test is submitted, action.php is called to execute the test. An attacker can use a shell command separator (;) in the host variable to execute operating system commands upon submitting the test data.

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Solution

The following text was originally created by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The original can be found at CISA.gov.

Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. recommends users update to firmware Version 3.3 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 500598

Version: 1.10

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 2/7/2022

Updated: 12/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mitsubishielectric:smartrtu_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Mitsubishi

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14931

CWE: 78

ICSA: 21-252-03

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