Siemens SIMATIC WinCC up to 3.14 Service Port TCP 5678 access control
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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8.1 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC up to 3.14 (SCADA Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Service Port TCP 5678. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 and prior (All versions < V3.14-P021). Improper access control to a data point of the affected product could allow an unauthenticated remote user to escalate its privileges in the context of SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with network access to port 5678/TCP of the SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 server. Successful exploitation requires no user privileges and no user interaction. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise integrity and availability of the SIMATIC WinCC OA system. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this vulnerability was known.
The bug was discovered 09/11/2018. The weakness was published 09/12/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-13799 since 07/10/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/16/2023). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling tcp/5678.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.1
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.1
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NVD Base Score: 9.1
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: FirewallStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
07/10/2018 🔍09/11/2018 🔍
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05/16/2023 🔍
Sources
Vendor: siemens.comAdvisory: ssa-346256
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-13799 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 105332 - Siemens SIMATIC WinCC OA CVE-2018-13799 Access Bypass Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 09/13/2018 08:13Updated: 05/16/2023 07:54
Changes: 09/13/2018 08:13 (61), 03/23/2020 08:52 (4), 05/16/2023 07:54 (4)
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