3 Advisories and 4 Updates

Yesterday the DHS NCCIC-ICS published three control system security advisories for products from Delta Industrial Automation and NUUO (2). They also updated a previously published control system security advisory for products from Yokogawa medical device security advisories for products from Medtronic, BD and Phillips.

Delta Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Delta Industrial Automation TPEditor. The vulnerabilities were reported by Ariele Caltabiano (kimiya) of 9SG Security Team and Mat Powel. Delta has a new version that mitigates the vulnerability. There is no indication that the researchers were provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2018-17929; and

• Out-of-bounds write - CVE-2018-17927

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker with uncharacterized access could exploit the vulnerability to crash the accessed device, resulting in a buffer overflow condition that may allow remote code execution.

CMS Advisory

This advisory describes four vulnerabilities in the NUUO CMS software management platform. The vulnerabilities were reported by Pedro Ribeiro. NUUO has a firmware update that mitigates the vulnerabilities. There is no indication that Ribeiro has been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The four reported vulnerabilities are:

• Use of insufficiently random values - CVE-2018-17888;

• Use of obsolete function - CVE-2018-17890;

• Incorrect permission assignment for critical resource - CVE-2018-17892; and

• Use of hard-coded credentials - CVE-2018-17894

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit the vulnerabilities to result in arbitrary remote code execution.

NVRmini2 Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the NUUO NVRmini2, NVRsolo network video recorders. The vulnerabilities were reported by Jacob Baines of Tenable. NUUO has a firmware update that mitigates the vulnerabilities. There is no indication that Baines has been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2018-1149; and

• Leftover debug code - CVE-2018-1150

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker using publicly available exploit code could remotely exploit the vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution and user account modification.

Yokogawa Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally reported on May 31^st, 2018. The new information includes:

• Addition of four new vulnerabilities;

• Revision of exploit consequences;

• Addition of new products affected; and

• Addition of mitigation information for newly identified products.

NOTE: All of this new information was reported in a separate Yokogawa advisory that I discussed here last month. That new advisory was not referenced in this update.

Medtronic Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on February 27^th, 2018 and updated on June 27^th, 2018. The new information includes:

• Addition of a new affected product;

• Addition of statement on possible remote access exploitation;

• Addition of a third vulnerability;

• Addition of report of new mitigation measure implemented by Medtronic

An FDA notice was published for the revised Medtronic advisory.

BD Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on May 22^nd, 2018. The new information includes a report of implementation of the promised mitigation measures.

Phillips Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on August 21^st, 2018 and updated on August 30^th, 2018. The new information includes the announcement of future mitigation measures to be undertaken by Phillips.

Three Advisories and Three Updates Published

Yesterday the DHS NCCIC-ICS published three control system security advisories for products from Entes, GE and Delta Electronics. They also updated previously published advisories for products from Phillips, WECOM and ABB.

Entes Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Entes EMG 12, an Ethernet Modbus Gateway. The vulnerability was reported by Can Demirel of Biznet Bilisim. Entes has a new firmware version that mitigates the vulnerabilities. There is no indication that Demirel has been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Improper authentication - CVE-2018-14826; and

• Information exposure in query strings in get request - CVE-2018-14822

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit the vulnerability to gain unauthorized access and could allow the ability to change device configuration and settings.

GE Advisory

This advisory describes a heap based buffer overflow in the GE Communicator application. The vulnerability was reported by kimiya, working with iDefense Labs. Newer versions of the application mitigate the vulnerability. There is no indication that kimiya has been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition.

Delta Advisory

This advisory describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Delta ISPSoft, a PLC program development tool. The vulnerability was reported by Ariele Caltabiano (kimiya) via ZDI. Newer versions of the tool mitigate the vulnerability. There is no indication that kimiya has been provided an opportunity to verify the efficacy of the fix.

NCCIC-ICS reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit the vulnerability to allow an attacker to execute code under the context of the application.

Phillips Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on March 29^th, 2018. The update adds the phrase “and/or system information” to the description provided for ‘information exposure’ vulnerabilities.

WECON Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on July 31^st, 2018. The updated information includes:

• Two new vulnerabilities added, and

• Added a third reporting security researcher.

I would have normally expected this to be a separate advisory, but since the original advisory was based upon information provided via the Zero Day Initiative, I suspect that there was an issue on that end of the process that is being corrected here.

ABB Update

This update provides additional information on an advisory that was originally published on August 28^th, 2018. The update provides new mitigation information.

ICS-CERT Publishes Two Advisories

Today the DHS ICS-CERT published a medical device security advisory for products from Phillips and a control system security advisory for products from Schneider electric.

Phillips Advisory

This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in the Phillips Alice 6 System sleep diagnostic system. The vulnerabilities are apparently self-reported. Phillips plans on producing a new product version in December that will mitigate the vulnerability.

The two reported vulnerabilities are:

• Improper authentication - CVE-2018-5451; and

• Missing encryption of sensitive data - CVE-2018-7498

ICS-CERT reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker using publicly available exploits could remotely exploit the vulnerabilities to gain visibility to usernames/passwords and personal data. Insufficient encryption and cryptographic integrity checks can lead to altered, corrupted, or disclosed sensitive data. Disclosure of personal data can occur by replacing a trusted node with a malicious node.

NOTE: These vulnerabilities were not reported on the FDA Medical Device Safety Communications page.

Schneider Advisory

This advisory describes three vulnerabilities in the Schneider Modicon products. The vulnerabilities were separately reported by Nikita Maximov, Alexey Stennikov, and Kirill Chernyshov of Positive Technologies as well as Meng Leizi and Zhang Daoquan. Schneider has described generic work arounds to mitigate the vulnerabilities.

The three reported vulnerabilities are:

• Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2018-7240;

• Use of hard-coded credentials - CVE-2018-7241; and

• Use of broken or risky cryptographic algorithm - CVE-2018-7242

ICS-CERT reports that a relatively low-skilled attacker could remotely exploit these vulnerabilities to allow a remote unauthorized attacker access to the file transfer service on the device, which could result in arbitrary code execution or malicious firmware installation.

NOTE: These are the Modicon FTP vulnerabilities that I reported on Saturday.

ICS-CERT Updates Petya Alert (#3)

Today the DHS ICS-CERT published their third update of the Petya Variant Alert that was originally published on June 30^th, 2017, and then updated on July 3^rd and again on July 5^th. Today’s update provides links to additional vendor information sites:

• Beckman-Coulter (an addendum to their WannaCry info);

• Phillips (a discussion on their security webpage); and

• Smiths-Medical

Interestingly, both Phillips and Smiths-Medical provide links to Microsoft® sites. The Phillips links to the new Microsoft Petya article which contains another link to the manual method for turning off SMBv1 if applying the MS17-010 update is not an option. Smiths-Medical links back to the WannaCry article.