ABB RTU500 Series Type Confusion in embedded OpenSSL (CVE-2023-0286)

high Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 501746

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability exists in the OpenSSL that affects the RTU500 Series product versions listed below.

RTU500 series CMU Firmware versions 12.0.1 – 12.0.15 12.2.1 – 12.2.12 12.4.1 – 12.4.12 12.6.1 – 12.6.9 12.7.1 – 12.7.6 13.2.1 – 13.2.6 13.3.1 – 13.3.3 13.4.2

There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName. X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE.
This field is subsequently interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING. When CRL checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 501746

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 9/29/2023

Updated: 9/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0286

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:hitachienergy:rtu500_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/ABB

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0286

CWE: 843

ICSA: 23-143-02

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