Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Siemens products - CVE-2022-46144

 

Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Siemens products - CVE-2022-46144

Published: December 19, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70421
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46144
CWE-ID: CWE-664
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 the affected device does not properly process CLI commands after a user forcefully quitted the SSH connection. A remote user can cause a denial of service condition on the target system.


Affected software

SCALANCE SC622-2C
SCALANCE SC626-2C
SCALANCE SC632-2C
SCALANCE SC636-2C
SCALANCE SC642-2C
SCALANCE SC646-2C
SCALANCE WAM763-1
SCALANCE WAM766-1
SCALANCE WAM766-1 EEC
SCALANCE WUM763-1
SCALANCE WUM766-1

How to mitigate CVE-2022-46144

Install updates from vendor's website.

SCALANCE SC622-2C - update to 3.0
SCALANCE SC626-2C - update to 3.0
SCALANCE SC632-2C - update to 3.0
SCALANCE SC636-2C - update to 3.0
SCALANCE SC642-2C - update to 3.0
SCALANCE SC646-2C - update to 3.0

External References

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