ICS-CERT Publishes Two Advisories

Yesterday the DHS ICS-CERT published a medical device security advisory for products from BMC Medical and 3B Medical (one advisory). They also published a control system security advisory for products from Advantech

BMC Medical Advisory

This advisory describes an improper input validation vulnerability in the Luna continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy machine produced jointly by BMC Medical and 3B Medical. The vulnerability was reported by MedSec. Newer versions (after July 2017) have had the problem corrected; ICS-CERT reports that the company’s do not plan on providing mitigation measures for ‘older’ (before July 2017) machines.

ICS-CERT reports that a relatively low skilled attacker with adjacent network access could exploit the vulnerability to cause a crash of the device’s Wi-Fi module resulting in a denial-of-service condition affecting the Wi-Fi module chipset. This does not affect the device’s ability to deliver therapy.

NOTE: Buyers of CPAP devices should take careful note of the lack of post-production cybersecurity support demonstrated for this brand of devices.

Advantech Advisory

This advisory describes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Advantech WebOP operator panels. The vulnerability was reported by Ariele Caltabiano (kimiya) via the Zero Day Initiative. ICS-CERT reports that Advantech was unable to verify the validity of this vulnerability. (NOTE: this obviously means that no mitigation measures appear to be forthcoming.)

ICS-CERT reports that a relatively low skilled attacker with uncharacterized access could use publicly available exploits to exploit this vulnerability to cause the target device to crash and may allow arbitrary code execution.

NOTE: There are a large number of ‘pending’ vulnerability reports on Advantech products currently listed on the ZDI web site.