A vulnerability was found in ifm Smart PLC AC14xx and Smart PLC AC4xxS up to 4.3.17 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published by Logan Carpenter as VDE-2024-012. The advisory is available at cert.vde.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-28751 since 03/08/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/10/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at VDB-270585, VDB-270586, VDB-270588 and VDB-270589.

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• ifm

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• Smart PLC AC4xxS
• Smart PLC AC14xx

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• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.3.4
• 4.3.5
• 4.3.6
• 4.3.7
• 4.3.8
• 4.3.9
• 4.3.10
• 4.3.11
• 4.3.12
• 4.3.13
• 4.3.14
• 4.3.15
• 4.3.16
• 4.3.17

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