Hitachi Energy NSD570 Teleprotection Equipment up to 1.20 Login Panel excessive authentication

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A vulnerability has been found in Hitachi Energy NSD570 Teleprotection Equipment up to 1.20 and classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component Login Panel. The manipulation leads to excessive authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-9928. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Hitachi Energy NSD570 Teleprotection Equipment up to 1.20. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Login Panel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a excessive authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-307. The product does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability exists in NSD570 login panel that does not restrict excessive authentication attempts. If exploited, this could cause account takeover and unauthorized access to the system when an attacker conducts brute-force attacks against the equipment login. Note that the system supports only one concurrent session and implements a delay of more than a second between failed login attempts making it difficult to automate the attacks.

It is possible to read the advisory at publisher.hitachienergy.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-9928 since 10/14/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1110.001 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

• NSD570 Teleprotection Equipment

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20

License

• commercial

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