Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29 Web-based GUI memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web-based GUI. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2018-7238. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix Professional up to 3.29 (SCADA Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Web-based GUI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A buffer overflow vulnerability exist in the web-based GUI of Schneider Electric's Pelco Sarix Professional in all firmware versions prior to 3.29.67 which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The bug was discovered 03/01/2018. The weakness was published 03/09/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at schneider-electric.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-7238 since 02/19/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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-114325, VDB-114326, VDB-114334 and VDB-114324. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality 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/

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Discussion