Insufficiently protected credentials in Citect SCADA



Published: 2019-05-31 | Updated: 2019-06-18
Risk Medium
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-10981
CWE-ID CWE-522
Exploitation vector Local
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Citect SCADA
Server applications / SCADA systems

Vijeo Citect
Server applications / SCADA systems

Vendor AVEVA Software, LLC.

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Insufficiently protected credentials

EUVDB-ID: #VU18823

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10981

CWE-ID: CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain the user credentials.

Vulnerability exist due to the user credentials in memory are stored in clear text. A local non-authorized user with high privileges can read the memory and obtain the credentials.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Customers should upgrade to the latest release of CitectSCADA2018.

Vulnerable software versions

Citect SCADA: 7.30 - 7.40

Vijeo Citect: 7.30 - 7.40

External links

http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-19-150-01
http://sw.aveva.com/hubfs/assets-2018/pdf/security-bulletin/SecurityAdvisory_LFSec136.pdf


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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