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

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 720263

Synopsis

synopsis=A Remote Code Execution (RCE) 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 authenticatd attacker with network access to the DCOM interface could execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with network access to the affected system. Successful exploitation requires authentication with a low-privileged user account and no user interaction. An attacker could use the vulnerability to compromise confidentiality and 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: 720263

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-2019-10918