SCALANCE M875 Web Interface information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in SCALANCE M875. It has been classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Interface. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-4861. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in SCALANCE M875 (unknown version). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE M875 (All versions). An authenticated remote attacker with access to the web interface (443/tcp), could potentially read and download arbitrary files from the device's file system. Successful exploitation requires that the attacker has network access to the web interface. The attacker must be authenticated as administrative user to exploit the security vulnerability. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.

The bug was discovered 06/12/2018. The weakness was presented 06/26/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-4861 since 01/02/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 14 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

See VDB-120011, VDB-120012, VDB-119995 and VDB-119996 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• M875

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