Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29.66 improper authentication

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29.66. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes improper authentication. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2018-7228. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29.66 (SCADA Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's Pelco Sarix Professional in all firmware versions prior to 3.29.67 which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and get the administrator privileges.

The bug was discovered 03/01/2018. The weakness was published 03/09/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at schneider-electric.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-7228 since 02/19/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.29.67 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-114326, VDB-114334, VDB-114335 and VDB-114324. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• SCADA Software

Vendor

• Schneider Electric

Name

• Pelco Sarix Professional

Version

• 3.29.0
• 3.29.1
• 3.29.2
• 3.29.3
• 3.29.4
• 3.29.5
• 3.29.6
• 3.29.7
• 3.29.8
• 3.29.9
• 3.29.10
• 3.29.11
• 3.29.12
• 3.29.13
• 3.29.14
• 3.29.15
• 3.29.16
• 3.29.17
• 3.29.18
• 3.29.19
• 3.29.20
• 3.29.21
• 3.29.22
• 3.29.23
• 3.29.24
• 3.29.25
• 3.29.26
• 3.29.27
• 3.29.28
• 3.29.29
• 3.29.30
• 3.29.31
• 3.29.32
• 3.29.33
• 3.29.34
• 3.29.35
• 3.29.36
• 3.29.37
• 3.29.38
• 3.29.39
• 3.29.40
• 3.29.41
• 3.29.42
• 3.29.43
• 3.29.44
• 3.29.45
• 3.29.46
• 3.29.47
• 3.29.48
• 3.29.49
• 3.29.50
• 3.29.51
• 3.29.52
• 3.29.53
• 3.29.54
• 3.29.55
• 3.29.56
• 3.29.57
• 3.29.58
• 3.29.59
• 3.29.60
• 3.29.61
• 3.29.62
• 3.29.63
• 3.29.64
• 3.29.65
• 3.29.66

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.schneider-electric.com/

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