Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH up to 1.34 Web UI Credentials credentials management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH up to 1.34. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web UI. This manipulation causes credentials management (Credentials). This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-13992. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH up to 1.34. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Web UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability (Credentials). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-255. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WebUI of PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH 3xxx, 4xxx, 48xx versions 1.0 to 1.34 allows for plaintext transmission (HTTP) of user credentials by default.

The bug was discovered 01/24/2019. The weakness was presented 05/07/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-13992 since 07/11/2018. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 103 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-134445, VDB-134444 and VDB-134442 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Phoenix Contact

Name

• FL SWITCH

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
• 1.34

License

• commercial

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