Emerson Dl 8000 Remote Terminal Unit Process Management code injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Emerson Dl 8000 Remote Terminal Unit. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Process Management. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2013-0689. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Emerson Dl 8000 Remote Terminal Unit (affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Process Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The TFTP server on the Emerson Process Management ROC800 RTU with software 3.50 and earlier, DL8000 RTU with software 2.30 and earlier, and ROC800L RTU with software 1.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to upload files and consequently execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was released 10/03/2013 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-0689 since 12/19/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/22/2018). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 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.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-65174, VDB-65173 and VDB-65172. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Emerson

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• Dl 8000 Remote Terminal Unit

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• commercial

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