Hitachi Energy RTU500 up to 13.2.7/13.4.4/13.5.3 improper authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Hitachi Energy RTU500 up to 13.2.7/13.4.4/13.5.3. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes improper authorization. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-2617. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Hitachi Energy RTU500 up to 13.2.7/13.4.4/13.5.3. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability exists in the RTU500 that allows for authenticated and authorized users to bypass secure update, if secure update feature was not enabled on all CMUs of a RTU500. If a malicious actor successfully exploits this vulnerability, they could use it to update the RTU500 with unsigned firmware.

It is possible to read the advisory at publisher.hitachienergy.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-2617 since 03/18/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. 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 03/04/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1548.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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Vendor

• Hitachi Energy

Name

• RTU500

Version

• 13.2.0
• 13.2.1
• 13.2.2
• 13.2.3
• 13.2.4
• 13.2.5
• 13.2.6
• 13.2.7
• 13.4.0
• 13.4.1
• 13.4.2
• 13.4.3
• 13.4.4
• 13.5.0
• 13.5.1
• 13.5.2
• 13.5.3

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• commercial

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