Siemens SPPA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server Crafted Packet heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens SPPA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation as part of Crafted Packet results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2019-18297. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens SPPA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server (SCADA Software) (the affected version is unknown). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation as part of a Crafted Packet leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability has been identified in SPPA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server (All versions). An attacker with local access to the MS3000 Server and low privileges could gain root privileges by sending specifically crafted packets to a named pipe. Please note that an attacker needs to have local access to the MS3000 in order to exploit this vulnerability. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.

The weakness was disclosed 12/12/2019. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-18297 since 10/23/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. A authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/11/2024).

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

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• SCADA Software

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• Siemens

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• SPPA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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