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FKIE_CVE-2024-12169

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-25 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:59

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

A vulnerability exists in RTU500 IEC 60870-5-104 controlled station functionality and IEC 61850 functionality, that allows an attacker performing a specific attack sequence to restart the affected CMU. This vulnerability only applies, if secure communication using IEC 62351-3 (TLS) is enabled.

References

	URL	Tags
	cybersecurity@hitachienergy.com	https://publisher.hitachienergy.com/preview?DocumentId=8DBD000207&languageCode=en&Preview=true

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2024-12169 (GCVE-0-2024-12169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 12:36 – Updated: 2025-03-25 13:11

Summary

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:A

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-25 13:11 UTC

CWE

CWE:410 Insufficient Resource Pool

Assigner

Hitachi Energy

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://publisher.hitachienergy.com/preview?Docum…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Hitachi Energy	RTU500	Affected: 13.4.1 , ≤ 13.4.4 (custom) Affected: 13.5.1 , ≤ 13.5.3 (custom) Affected: 13.6.1 (custom) Affected: 13.7.1 , ≤ 13.7.4 (custom) Unaffected: 13.7.6 (custom)

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