Siemens LOGO! CMR and SIMATIC RTU 3000 Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-2020-36478)

high Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 501678

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). A NULL algorithm parameters entry looks identical to an array of REAL (size zero) and thus the certificate is considered valid. However, if the parameters do not match in any way, then the certificate should be considered invalid.

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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.

For LOGO! CMR2020, Siemens recommends affected users update to v2.2 or later.

For LOGO! CMR2040, Siemens recommends affected users update to v2.2 or later.

For the SIMATIC RTU 3000 family, Siemens recommends affected users use the certificate projection feature to pin the valid certificates of external servers providing services to the RTU/CMR devices. Refer to the product manual for further information.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 501678

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 9/21/2023

Updated: 9/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36478

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:siemens:logo%21_cmr2020_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:logo%21_cmr2040_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Siemens

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36478

CWE: 295

ICSA: 21-257-20

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