Resource exhaustion in Siemens products - CVE-2019-13926
Published: February 12, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25265
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13926
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packets to Port 443/TCP, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A cold reboot is required to restore the functionality of the device.
Affected software
SCALANCE S602
SCALANCE S612
SCALANCE S623
SCALANCE S627-2M
SCALANCE S612
SCALANCE S623
SCALANCE S627-2M
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13926
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.