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Rockwell Automation EWEB SNMP Denial of Service

Medium

Synopsis

While working with Rockwell Automation's 1756-EWEB, Tenable discovered an unauthenticated remote attacker could trigger a denial of service condition in the SNMP service by sending a zero length SNMP packet to the device. Note that the control functionality of the device is unaffected. This vulnerability can easily be recreated using hping3:

 hping3 -2 -p 161 

Solution

Follow Rockwell Automation's suggested actions in their advisory.

Disclosure Timeline

09/28/2018 - Vulnerability found.
11/02/2018 - Rockwell notified via encrypted email. 90 day is Feb. 4, 2019
11/08/2018 - Rockwell reproduced the issue.
01/03/2019 - Tenable asks for an update.
01/04/2019 - Rockwell provides an update.
01/22/2019 - Rockwell assigned CVE-2018-19016 and contacted ICS-CERT. Indicates they will be ready for Feb. 4th.
01/23/2019 - Tenable acknowledges and promises a draft advisory.
01/25/2019 - Rockwell provides a draft advisory and the link where it will appear on Feb. 4th.
01/30/2019 - Rockwell asks for Tenable's draft advisory.
01/31/2019 - Tenable provides a draft advisory.
02/01/2019 - Rockwell provides feedback.
02/04/2019 - Rockwell informs Tenable that their advisory has been published.

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Risk Information

CVE ID: CVE-2018-19016
Tenable Advisory ID: TRA-2019-06
Credit:
John Lampe
Ben Smith
Cesar Navas
Stephen Jungck
Dan Coppock
Dimitriy Dade
Aleks McKinney
Aaron Luft
Kyle Kelley
Stephen Baronowsky
Iain Kyte
Ron Erdman
Scott Clement
CVSSv2 Base / Temporal Score:
5.0 / 4.8
CVSSv2 Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected Products:
1756-EWEB v5.001 and below
1768-EWEB, v2.005 and below
Risk Factor:
Medium

Advisory Timeline

02/04/2019 - Initial Release