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WAGO PFC200 Series Improper Authentication (CVE-2018-5459)

critical Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 500921

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

An Improper Authentication issue was discovered in WAGO PFC200 Series 3S CoDeSys Runtime versions 2.3.X and 2.4.X. An attacker can execute different unauthenticated remote operations because of the CoDeSys Runtime application, which is available via network by default on Port 2455. An attacker could execute some unauthenticated commands such as reading, writing, or deleting arbitrary files, or manipulate the PLC application during runtime by sending specially-crafted TCP packets to Port 2455.

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Solution

The following text was originally created by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The original can be found at CISA.gov.

WAGO released a security patch with FW11 available at:

http://global.wago.com/media/2_products/security/Sec-Advisory_CoDeSys.pdf

See Also

https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-044-01

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 500921

Version: 1.4

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 3/29/2023

Updated: 3/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5459

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:wago:pfc200_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Wago

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5459

CWE: 287