Schneider Electric Modicon Multiple Controllers Cross-Site Scripting

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 720245
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Synopsis

Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, Modicon M340, and BMXNOR0200 controllers execute URL containing JavaScript.

Description

An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) vulnerability exists in the embedded web servers in all Modicon M340, Premium, Quantum PLCs and BMXNOR0200 allowing an attacker to craft a URL containing JavaScript that will be executed within the user's browser, potentially impacting the machine the browser is running on.

Solution

Perform vendor recommended mitigations and apply available vendor upgrades.

See Also

https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/SEVD-2018-327-01,https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-38

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 720245

Family: SCADA

Published: 5/8/2019

Updated: 9/30/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7810