PT-2015-12: Privilege Gaining in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)
Vulnerable software
Siemens SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)
Version: 13 and earlier
Link:
http://www.siemens.com/
Severity level
Severity level: Medium
Impact: Privilege Gaining
Access Vector: Remote
CVSS v2:
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
CVE: CVE-2014-4686
Software description
Siemens SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) is an engineering software to configure and program SIMATIC Panels, SIMATIC Industrial PCs, and Standard PCs running WinCC Runtime Advanced or SCADA System WinCC Runtime Professional visualization software.
Vulnerability description
The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Privilege Gaining vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal).
Vulnerability exists due to a hard coded encryption key in WinCC RT Professional, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and escalate their privileges by sniffing network traffic.
How to fix
Update your sofware up to the latest version
Advisory status
21.09.2012 - Vendor gets vulnerability details
13.02.2015 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
25.02.2015 - Public disclosure
Credits
The vulnerability was detected by Gleb Gritsai, Roman Ilin, Alexander Tlyapov, and Sergey Gordeychik, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)
References
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2015-12
http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-543623.pdf
Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:
http://www.ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/