Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX II Family up to 2.16.x injection

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX II Family up to 2.16.x. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-56835. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX II Family up to 2.16.x. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 (All versions < V2.17.0), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 (All versions < V2.17.0). The DHCP Server configuration file of the affected products is subject to code injection. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to spawn a reverse shell and gain root access on the affected system.

It is possible to read the advisory at cert-portal.siemens.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-56835 since 01/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/13/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.17.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Siemens

Name

• RUGGEDCOM ROX II Family

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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