Input validation error in SIMATIC MV400 - CVE-2020-25241

 

Input validation error in SIMATIC MV400 - CVE-2020-25241

Published: March 10, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU51379
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-25241
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Siemens
Affected software:
SIMATIC MV400

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the underlying TCP stack of the affected products does not correctly validate the sequence number for incoming TCP RST packages. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2020-25241

Install update from vendor's website.

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