VDB-133448 · CVE-2019-10953 · BID 108413

ABB/Phoenix Contact/Schneider Electric/Siemens Programmable Logic Controller Network Packet resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ABB/Phoenix Contact/Schneider Electric/Siemens Programmable Logic Controller. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation as part of Network Packet leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-10953. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Restrictive firewalling should be applied.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in ABB/Phoenix Contact/Schneider Electric/Siemens Programmable Logic Controller (SCADA Software) (version unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation as part of a Network Packet leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

ABB, Phoenix Contact, Schneider Electric, Siemens, WAGO - Programmable Logic Controllers, multiple versions. Researchers have found some controllers are susceptible to a denial-of-service attack due to a flood of network packets.

The bug was discovered 04/16/2019. The weakness was presented 04/17/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-10953 since 04/08/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Addressing this vulnerability is possible by firewalling .

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.2
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ADP CISA Base Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Firewall
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Timelineinfo

04/08/2019 🔍
04/16/2019 +8 days 🔍
04/17/2019 +1 days 🔍
04/17/2019 +0 days 🔍
05/29/2026 +2599 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2019-10953 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-10953
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-133448
SecurityFocus: 108413

Entryinfo

Created: 04/17/2019 22:41
Updated: 05/29/2026 21:38
Changes: 04/17/2019 22:41 (55), 05/30/2020 09:35 (2), 08/29/2023 14:39 (4), 05/29/2026 21:38 (26)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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