ICS-CERT Publishes 3 Advisories

Today the DHS ICS-CERT published one control system security advisory for products from Delta Electronics and two medical device security advisories for products from Medtronic.

Delta Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Delta CNCSoft and ScreenEditor products. The vulnerability was reported by Mat Powell via the Zero Day Initiative. Delta has an updated version of CNCSoft that mitigates the vulnerabilities. There is no indication that Powell was provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2018-10636; and

• Out-of-bounds read - CVE-2018-10598

ICS-CERT reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit the vulnerability to gain remote code execution with administrator privileges.

MiniMed Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Medtronic MiniMed 508 Insulin Pump. The vulnerabilities were reported by Billy Rios, Jesse Young, and Jonathan Butts of Whitescope LLC. Medtronic does not intend to develop a mitigation for these vulnerabilities (see note below).

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Cleartext transmission of sensitive information - CVE-2018-10634; and

• Authentication bypass by capture replay - CVE-2018-14781

ICS-CERT reports that an uncharacterized attacker could remotely exploit these vulnerabilities to allow an attacker to replay captured wireless communications and cause an insulin (bolus) delivery.

NOTE: The Medtronic security advisory reports that the following must occur for these vulnerabilities to be exploited:

1. The remote option for the pump would need to be enabled. This is not a factory-delivered default, and a user must choose this option.

2. The user’s remote controller ID needs to be registered to the pump.

3. The easy bolus option would need to be turned on and easy bolus step size programmed in the pump.

4. An unauthorized individual would need to be within close proximity to the user, with

necessary equipment to copy the RF signals activated, when the user is delivering a bolus

using the remote controller.

5. The unauthorized individual would need to be within the vicinity of the userto play back the RF signals to deliver a malicious remote bolus.

6. The user would need to ignore the pump alerts, which indicates that a remote bolus is being delivered.

MyCareLink Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor. The vulnerabilities were reported by Billy Rios, Jesse Young, and Jonathan Butts of Whitescope LLC. Medtronic is making (has made for one of the vulnerabilities) server side updates to mitigate the vulnerabilities. There is no indication that the researchers have been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Insufficient verification of data authenticity - CVE-2018-10626; and

• Storing passwords in a recoverable format - CVE-2018-10622

ICS-CERT reports that an uncharacterized attacker with physical access to the device could exploit the vulnerabilities to obtain per-product credentials that are utilized to authenticate data uploads and encrypt data at rest. Additionally, an attacker with access to a set of these credentials and additional identifiers can upload invalid data to the Medtronic CareLink network.