icsa-17-101-01
Vulnerability from csaf_cisa
Published
2017-04-11 00:00
Modified
2017-04-11 00:00
Summary
Schneider Electric Modicon Modbus Protocol
Notes
CISA Disclaimer
This CSAF advisory was extracted from unstructured data and may contain inaccuracies. If you notice any errors, please reach out to the designated contact at CISA CSAF: central@cisa.dhs.gov
Legal Notice
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Risk evaluation
ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit.
Critical infrastructure sectors
Critical Manufacturing, Dams, Defense Industrial Base, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste, Transportation Systems, and Water and Wastewater Systems
Countries/areas deployed
Worldwide
Company headquarters location
Paris, France
Recommended Practices
NCCIC/ICS-CERT recommends that users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities. Specifically, users should:
Recommended Practices
ICS-CERT reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
Recommended Practices
ICS-CERT also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS-CERT web page. Several recommended practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
Recommended Practices
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available in the ICS -CERT Technical Information Paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B--Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies, that is available for download from the ICS-CERT web site.
Recommended Practices
Organizations observing any suspected malicious activity should follow their established internal procedures and report their findings to ICS-CERT for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
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"details": "Schneider Electric\u0027s Momentum M1E controllers (all versions of model 171CBU98090 and all versions of model 171CBU98091) do not have built-in compensating controls to limit the exploitability of the identified vulnerabilities ",
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"details": "Protect access to M1E controllers by a firewall blocking all remote/external access to Port 502.",
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"details": "Enable protection based on an authentication to connect to PLC. This method relies on a feature named Application Password. Once enabled, password-based authentication is required whenever a user connects to change their application program",
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"details": "Enable protection relying on an input (M340, Premium, Quantum) or a key switch in the front panel (Quantum) to reject remote connection or run/stop commands",
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},
{
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"product_ids": [
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},
{
"category": "mitigation",
"details": "Enable protection relying on an input (M340, Premium, Quantum) or a key switch in the front panel (Quantum) to reject remote connection or run/stop commands",
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