Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation up to 16.20.02 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation up to 16.20.02 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-21913. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation up to 16.20.02. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A heap-based memory buffer overflow vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation software could potentially allow a malicious user to insert unauthorized code into the software by overstepping the memory boundaries, which triggers an access violation. Once inside, the threat actor can run harmful code on the system. This affects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the product. To trigger this, the user would unwittingly need to open a malicious file shared by the threat actor.

The weakness was presented by Michael Heinzl. It is possible to read the advisory at rockwellautomation.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-21913 since 01/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/10/2024).

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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• Automation Software

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• Rockwell Automation

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• Arena Simulation

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• 16.20.02

License

• commercial

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