GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI-SCADA up to 10.0 privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI-SCADA up to 10.0 (SCADA Software). Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA product v10.0 and prior. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an adversary to modify the system, leading to the arbitrary execution of code. This vulnerability is only exploitable if an attacker has access to an authenticated session. GE Digital CIMPLICITY v11.0, released January 2020, contains mitigation for this local privilege escalation vulnerability. GE Digital recommends all users upgrade to GE CIMPLICITY v11.0 or newer.

The weakness was published 04/15/2020. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-6992 since 01/14/2020. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 11.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Productinfoedit

Type

SCADA Software

Vendor

Name

Digital CIMPLICITY HMI-SCADA

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 6.7
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Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: CWE-269
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfoedit

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Digital CIMPLICITY HMI-SCADA 11.0

Timelineinfoedit

01/14/2020 CVE assigned
04/15/2020 +92 days Advisory disclosed
04/16/2020 +1 days VulDB entry created
04/16/2020 +0 days VulDB last update

Sourcesinfoedit

Vendor: https://www.ge.com/

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-6992 (🔒)

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