TIA Portal V14/V15.1/V16 Configuration File path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in TIA Portal V14/V15.1/V16. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation as part of Configuration File leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-10934. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in TIA Portal V14/V15.1/V16. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation as part of a Configuration File leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in TIA Portal V14 (All versions), TIA Portal V15 (All versions < V15.1 Upd 4), TIA Portal V16 (All versions). Changing the contents of a configuration file could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. The security vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with a valid account and limited access rights on the system. No user interaction is required. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.

The weakness was shared 01/16/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-10934 since 04/08/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

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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• TIA

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• Portal

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• V14
• V15.1
• V16

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