Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 <= V9.0 and TIA Portal <= 15 SQL Injection (ICSA-19-134-08)

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 720261

Synopsis

A sql injection vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) V13 through V15 (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC (All versions prior to V7.5 Update 3).

Description

An attacker with access to the project file could run arbitrary system commands with the privileges of the local database server. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with access to the project file. The vulnerability does impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.

Solution

Perform vendor recommended mitigations and apply available vendor upgrades.

See Also

https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-19-134-08

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 720261

Family: SCADA

Published: 6/6/2019

Updated: 9/30/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10916