SB2018100510 - Multiple vulnerabilities in WECON PI Studio
Published: October 5, 2018
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14818)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to stack-based buffer overflow when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14810)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected product parses files and passes invalidated user data to an unsafe method call. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
3) XXE attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17889)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct XXE-attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of XML External Entities (XXEs) when parsing an XML file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted XML file and gain access to potentially sensitive information.
4) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14814)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file and read past the end of an allocated object.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.