Siemens Scalance W1750D Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (CVE-2023-45616)

critical Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502197

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying AirWave client service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets destined to the PAPI (Aruba's access point management protocol) UDP port (8211). Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to execute arbitrary code as a privileged user on the underlying operating system.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
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Solution

Siemens has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations that customers can apply to reduce the risk:

- CVE-2023-45614, CVE-2023-45615, CVE-2023-45616, CVE-2023-45617, CVE-2023-45618, CVE-2023-45619, CVE-2023-45620, CVE-2023-45621, CVE-2023-45622, CVE-2023-45623, CVE-2023-45624: Enabling cluster-security via the cluster-security command will prevent the vulnerabilities from being exploited
- CVE-2023-45625, CVE-2023-45626, CVE-2023-45627: The CLI and web-based management interfaces should be restricted to a dedicated layer 2 segment/VLAN and/or controlled by firewall policies at layer 3 and above

Product-specific remediations or mitigations can be found in the section Affected Products and Solution of the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 502197

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 4/13/2024

Updated: 4/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:siemens:scalance_w1750d_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Siemens

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45616

CWE: 120

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