PT-2016-41: Information Disclosure in GE Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX, Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY, and Proficy Historian Vulnerable productProficy HMI/SCADA iFIX Version: 5.8 SIM 13 and earlierProficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY Version: 9.0 and earlierProficy Historian Version: 6.0 and earlierLinks: https://www.ge.com/Severity levelSeverity level: Medium Impact: Information Disclosure Access Vector: Local CVSS v3: Base Score: 6.4 Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L)CVE: CVE-2016-9360Product descriptioniFIX from GE Digital, formerly Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX, is the industrial automation system of choice for many applications, ranging from common HMI, as simple as manual data entry and validation, to complex SCADA, such as batch, filtration, and distributed alarm management. CIMPLICITY from GE Digital (formerly Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY) provides client-server based visualization and control – from single machines to plant locations spanning the world – helping to manage operations and improve decision making. Historian from GE Digital (formerly Proficy Historian) is a data management software. Historian optimizes asset and plant performance through time series industrial data collection and aggregation and connects to GE Digital’s Predix-based cloud solutions like Asset Performance Management, Brilliant Manufacturing, and HMI and SCADA. Vulnerability descriptionThe specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Information Disclosure vulnerability in GE Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX, Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY, and Proficy Historian.Vulnerability due to insufficient protection of user credentials allows attackers to obtain user passwords.How to fixUpdate your products to the latest versionAdvisory status 05.08.2015 - Vendor gets vulnerability details 01.12.2016 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 18.01.2017 - Public disclosureCreditsThe vulnerability was detected by Ilya Karpov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)References http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2016-41 https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-336-05 Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:http://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/threatscape/ http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/