Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform up to 2.90 Service Port Crafted Packet resource management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform up to 2.90. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Service Port. The manipulation as part of Crafted Packet results in resource management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2018-18981. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Applying restrictive firewalling is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform up to 2.90 (Automation Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Service Port. The manipulation as part of a Crafted Packet leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform 2.90 and earlier, a remote unauthenticated attacker could send numerous crafted packets to service ports resulting in memory consumption that could lead to a partial or complete denial-of-service condition to the affected services.

The bug was discovered 12/20/2018. The weakness was released 01/24/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-18981 since 11/06/2018. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 35 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

It is possible to mitigate the weakness by firewalling .

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106279†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Automation Software

Vendor

• Rockwell Automation

Name

• FactoryTalk Services Platform

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52
• 2.53
• 2.54
• 2.55
• 2.56
• 2.57
• 2.58
• 2.59
• 2.60
• 2.61
• 2.62
• 2.63
• 2.64
• 2.65
• 2.66
• 2.67
• 2.68
• 2.69
• 2.70
• 2.71
• 2.72
• 2.73
• 2.74
• 2.75
• 2.76
• 2.77
• 2.78
• 2.79
• 2.80
• 2.81
• 2.82
• 2.83
• 2.84
• 2.85
• 2.86
• 2.87
• 2.88
• 2.89
• 2.90

License

• commercial

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