ABB RTU500 Series OpenSSL Bleichenbacher Style Attack (CVE-2022-4304)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 501743

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability exists in the OpenSSL that affects the RTU500 Series product versions listed below.

RTU500 series CMU Firmware versions 12.0.1 – 12.0.15 12.2.1 – 12.2.12 12.4.1 – 12.4.12 12.6.1 – 12.6.9 12.7.1 – 12.7.6 13.2.1 – 13.2.6 13.3.1 – 13.3.3 13.4.2

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 501743

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 9/29/2023

Updated: 10/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4304

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:hitachienergy:rtu500_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/ABB

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4304

CWE: 203

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