B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4 SSH Server incomplete filtering of special elements

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component SSH Server. The manipulation results in incomplete filtering of special elements. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-45481. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the component SSH Server. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incomplete filtering of special elements vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-791. The product receives data from an upstream component, but does not completely filter special elements before sending it to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements vulnerability in scripts using the SSH server on B&R APROL <4.4-00P5 may allow an authenticated local attacker to authenticate as another legitimate user.

The advisory is shared for download at br-automation.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-45481 since 08/29/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 4.4-00P5 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Incomplete filtering of special elements
CWE: CWE-791 / CWE-790 / CWE-184
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Patch: 4.4-00P5

Timelineinfo

08/29/2024 🔍
03/25/2025 +208 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: br-automation.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-45481 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-45481
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-300948

Entryinfo

Created: 03/25/2025 06:35
Changes: 03/25/2025 06:35 (67)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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