Siemens SIMATIC and SCALANCE Products Encryption Strength (CVE-2022-2097)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502322

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

AES OCB mode for 32-bit x86 platforms using the AES-NI assembly optimised implementation will not encrypt the entirety of the data under some circumstances. This could reveal sixteen bytes of data that was preexisting in the memory that wasn't written. In the special case of 'in place' encryption, sixteen bytes of the plaintext would be revealed. Since OpenSSL does not support OCB based cipher suites for TLS and DTLS, they are both unaffected.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.

Solution

Siemens has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations that customers can apply to reduce the risk:
- Only build and run applications from trusted sources.

See Also

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-879734.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-625862.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-165-10

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-165-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 502322

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 7/23/2024

Updated: 7/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:siemens:siplus_et_200sp_cp_1542sp-1_irc_tx_rail_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:siplus_et_200sp_cp_1543sp-1_isec_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xm416-4c_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xr524-8c_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_cp_1543sp-1_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xm408-4c_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_tm_mfp, cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_cp_1542sp-1_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:siplus_et_200sp_cp_1543sp-1_isec_tx_rail_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xr526-8c_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xm408-8c_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xr552-12m_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_cp_1542sp-1_irc_firmware, cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_xr528-6m_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Siemens

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2097

CWE: 326