B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4 Script insufficient permissions or privileges

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Script Handler. The manipulation leads to insufficient permissions or privileges. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-8315. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in B&R Industrial Automation B&R APROL up to 4.4-00P4. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Script Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient permissions or privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-280. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges vulnerability in scripts used in B&R APROL <4.4-00P5 may allow an authenticated local attacker to read credential information.

The advisory is shared at br-automation.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-8315 since 08/29/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

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

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.2

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Insufficient permissions or privileges
CWE: CWE-280 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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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-2024-8315 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-8315
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-300953

Entryinfo

Created: 03/25/2025 06:38
Changes: 03/25/2025 06:38 (67)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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