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ICSA-24-004-01: Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation ↗ source

January 4, 2024 CISA ICS Advisory

Summary

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in a buffer overflow and allow the attacker to gain full access to the system. CVE-2023-38545: Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager and Studio 5000 Logix Designer uses the affected Wibu-Systems' products which internally use a version of libcurl that is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack if curl is configured to redirect traffic through a SOCKS5 proxy. A malicious proxy can exploit a bug in the implemented handshake to cause a buffer overflow. If no SOCKS5 proxy has been configured, there is no attack surface. CVE-2023-3935: Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager and Studio 5000 Logix Designer uses the affected Wibu-Systems' products which contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Wibu CodeMeter Runtime network service up to Version 7.60b that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to achieve RCE and gain full access of the host system.

Advisory Details CISA ICS CSAF feed

Advisory ID
ICSA-24-004-01
Status
Final · version 1
Initial release
2024-01-04
Last revised
2024-01-04
Vendor
Rockwell Automation
Critical infrastructure sectors
Critical Manufacturing
Deployed
Worldwide
Vendor headquarters
United States

Exploitation: No known public exploits that specifically target these vulnerabilities have been reported to CISA at this time.

Credit: an anonymous researcher

Affected products (1)
  • Factory Talk Activation Manager — <V4.00_Utilizes_Wibu-Systems_CodeMeter_7.60c

From CISA's machine-readable CSAF 2.0 advisory (JSON).

Vulnerabilities as Stated by the Advisory

CVEWeaknessCVSS v3Details
CVE-2023-38545 CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write 9.8 Critical Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager and Studio 5000 Logix Designer uses the affected Wibu-Systems' products which internally use a version of libcurl that is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack if curl is configured to redirect traffic through a SOCKS5 proxy. A malicious proxy can exploit a bug in the implemented handshake to cause a buffer overflow. If no SOCKS5 proxy has been configured, there is no attack surface.

Mitigation: Users of the affected software are encouraged to apply the risk mitigations, if possible:

Mitigation: Upgrade to FactoryTalk Activation Manager 5.01 which has been patched to mitigate these issues.

Mitigation: For information on how to mitigate security risks on industrial automation control systems see our suggested security best practices. ↗

Affected, fixed & timeline

Affected:

  • Factory Talk Activation Manager <V4.00_Utilizes_Wibu-Systems_CodeMeter_7.60c

Mitigation: Rockwell Automation encourages users to implement their suggested security best practices to minimize risk of the vulnerability.

Mitigation: For more information, please see the security advisory from Rockwell Automation

CVE-2023-3935 CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write 7.5 High Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager and Studio 5000 Logix Designer uses the affected Wibu-Systems' products which contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Wibu CodeMeter Runtime network service up to Version 7.60b that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to achieve RCE and gain full access of the host system.

Mitigation: Users of the affected software are encouraged to apply the risk mitigations, if possible:

Mitigation: Upgrade to FactoryTalk Activation Manager 5.01 which has been patched to mitigate these issues.

Mitigation: For information on how to mitigate security risks on industrial automation control systems see our suggested security best practices. ↗

Affected, fixed & timeline

Affected:

  • Factory Talk Activation Manager <V4.00_Utilizes_Wibu-Systems_CodeMeter_7.60c

Mitigation: Rockwell Automation encourages users to implement their suggested security best practices to minimize risk of the vulnerability.

Mitigation: For more information, please see the security advisory from Rockwell Automation

Scores and weakness types are as CISA or the republishing vendor stated them in this advisory; the linked CVE pages carry the independently enriched CVSS and SSVC assessments.

News Coverage

No coverage found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

CVEs Referenced in This Publication

CVECVSSAffected
CVE-2023-3935 9.8 Critical Wibu CodeMeter Runtime A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Wibu CodeMeter Runtime network service up to version 7.60b allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to achi…
CVE-2023-38545 8.8 High curl curl This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the host name to the SOCKS5 proxy …

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Vendors Named in This Publication

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