#VU26963 Resource exhaustion in Siemens products - CVE-2019-19301

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#VU26963 Resource exhaustion in Siemens products - CVE-2019-19301

Published: April 15, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU26963
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2019-19301
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
SCALANCE X-200
SCALANCE X-200 IRT
SCALANCE X-300
SIMATIC RF180C
SIMATIC RF182C
SIMATIC CP 443-1 Standard
SIMATIC CP 443-1 Advanced
Software vendor:
Siemens

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to the VxWorks-based Profinet TCP stack can be forced to make resource-intense calls for every incoming packet. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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