Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29 system.download.sd_file input validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument system.download.sd_file leads to input validation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-7235. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. 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 (SCADA Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument system.download.sd_file with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's Pelco Sarix Professional in all firmware versions prior to 3.29.67 which could allow arbitrary system file download due to lack of validation of the shell meta characters with the value of 'system.download.sd_file'

The bug was discovered 03/01/2018. The weakness was disclosed 03/09/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at schneider-electric.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-7235 since 02/19/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is 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.

The entries VDB-114325, VDB-114326, VDB-114334 and VDB-114335 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• SCADA Software

Vendor

• Schneider Electric

Name

• Pelco Sarix Professional

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29

License

• commercial

Website

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

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