Schneider Electric has released software and firmware updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting some of the company’s Wonderware and Modicon products.
According to advisories released by Schneider Electric and ICS-CERT, the Access Anywhere extension of the Wonderware InTouch HMI visualization software is affected by four medium and high severity vulnerabilities.
The list includes a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) on the Gateway component (CVE-2017-5156), an information disclosure flaw that could lead to the exposure of credentials (CVE-2017-5158), and a weakness related to the use of outdated cipher suites and improper verification of SSL certificates (CVE-2017-5160).
The fourth vulnerability, only mentioned in Schneider’s advisory, has been described as a flaw that allows an attacker to escape remote InTouch applications and launch other processes.
The security holes affect Wonderware InTouch Access Anywhere 2014 R2 SP1b (11.5.2) and prior, and they have been addressed with the release of Wonderware InTouch Access Anywhere 2017 (17.0.0). The vendor has also provided recommendations for mitigating the vulnerabilities.
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Three medium and high severity vulnerabilities have also been identified in Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
The flaws are related to the exposure of login credentials during transmission (CVE-2017-6028), predictable authentication cookies (CVE-2017-6026), and insufficiently random TCP initial sequence numbers (CVE-2017-6030). Schneider Electric has published separate advisories for each of the issues.
The security holes affect Modicon M221, M241 and M251 PLCs. The vendor has released firmware updates that address the weaknesses related to insufficiently random values, and provided recommendations for reducing the risk of exploitation for the credentials protection vulnerability.
In early March, Schneider also released an advisory to warn customers of a flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on Modicon PLCs.
The company also informed users this month about a high severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting the Flexera FlexNet Publisher component used in the Schneider Electric Floating License Manager. This license manager is used by both the PowerSCADA Expert and PlantStruxure PES products.
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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a contributing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.
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