Siemens Sinamics Perfect Harmony GH180 Drives Uncontrolled Resource Consumption DoS (ICSA-19-134-05)

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 720305

Synopsis

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the Ethernet Modbus Interface to cause a denial-of-service condition exceeding the number of available connections.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Siemens Sinamics Perfect Harmony GH180 Drives. Successful exploitation requires no privileges and no user interaction. An attacker with network access to the device could use the vulnerability to compromise availability of the affected system.

Solution

Perform vendor recommended mitigations and apply available vendor upgrades.

See Also

https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/ICSA-19-134-05

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 720305

Family: SCADA

Published: 10/15/2019

Updated: 10/15/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6578