Siemens Opcenter Execution Discrete unquoted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Opcenter Execution Discrete, Opcenter Execution Foundation, Opcenter Execution Process, Opcenter Intelligence, Opcenter Quality, Opcenter RD, L, SIMATIC Notifier Server for Windows, SIMATIC PCS neo, SIMATIC STEP 7, SIMOCODE ES and Soft Starter ES. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-7581. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Opcenter Execution Discrete, Opcenter Execution Foundation, Opcenter Execution Process, Opcenter Intelligence, Opcenter Quality, Opcenter RD, L, SIMATIC Notifier Server for Windows, SIMATIC PCS neo, SIMATIC STEP 7, SIMOCODE ES and Soft Starter ES (SCADA Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unquoted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-428. The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability has been identified in Opcenter Execution Discrete (All versions < V3.2), Opcenter Execution Foundation (All versions < V3.2), Opcenter Execution Process (All versions < V3.2), Opcenter Intelligence (All versions), Opcenter Quality (All versions < V11.3), Opcenter RD&L (V8.0), SIMATIC Notifier Server for Windows (All versions), SIMATIC PCS neo (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) V15 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) V16 (All versions < V16 Update 2), SIMOCODE ES (All versions), Soft Starter ES (All versions). A component within the affected application calls a helper binary with SYSTEM privileges during startup while the call path is not quoted.

The weakness was released 07/14/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-7581 since 01/21/2020. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. 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 07/15/2020). This vulnerability is assigned to T1574.009 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.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-158068 and VDB-158069. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• SCADA Software

Vendor

• Siemens

Name

• L
• Opcenter Execution Discrete
• Opcenter Execution Foundation
• Opcenter Execution Process
• Opcenter Intelligence
• Opcenter Quality
• Opcenter RD
• SIMATIC Notifier Server for Windows
• SIMATIC PCS neo
• SIMATIC STEP 7
• SIMOCODE ES
• Soft Starter ES

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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