ABB System 800xA for DCI Inter-Process Communication access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in ABB System 800xA for DCI. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Inter-Process Communication. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-8484. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in ABB System 800xA for DCI (affected version not known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Inter-Process Communication. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insufficient protection of the inter-process communication functions in ABB System 800xA for DCI (all published versions) enables an attacker authenticated on the local system to inject data, allowing reads and writes to the controllers or cause windows processes to crash.

The weakness was disclosed 04/29/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at search.abb.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-8484 since 01/30/2020. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

01/30/2020 🔍
04/29/2020 +90 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: search.abb.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-8484 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-8484
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-154562
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/29/2020 08:34
Updated: 06/04/2024 10:02
Changes: 04/29/2020 08:34 (38), 04/29/2020 09:29 (11), 10/14/2020 09:45 (1), 10/14/2020 09:50 (1), 06/04/2024 10:02 (33)
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