Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH 3xxx/FL SWITCH 4xxx/FL SWITCH 48xx up to 1.33 Configuration File information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH 3xxx, FL SWITCH 4xxx and FL SWITCH 48xx up to 1.33. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Configuration File. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-10729. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH 3xxx, FL SWITCH 4xxx and FL SWITCH 48xx up to 1.33. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Configuration File. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

All Phoenix Contact managed FL SWITCH 3xxx, 4xxx, 48xx products running firmware version 1.0 to 1.33 allow reading the configuration file by an unauthenticated user.

The bug was discovered 05/17/2018. The weakness was disclosed 05/17/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cert.vde.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-10729 since 05/04/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 104231†). The entries VDB-117946, VDB-117948 and VDB-117949 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Phoenix Contact

Name

• FL SWITCH 3xxx
• FL SWITCH 4xxx
• FL SWITCH 48xx

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33

License

• commercial

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