16 March 2020

KLCERT-20-002: XXE on Moxa’s cellular management software OnCell Central Manager Version lower than 2.4.1

Vendor

Moxa

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    16 March 2020

  • Vendor releases patch

    March 2020

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    November 2019

Description

Moxa’s cellular management software OnCell Central Manager Version lower than 2.4.1 was affected to XML External Entity (XXE) due to vulnerable third-party component usage (Apache Flex BlazeDS).

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

OnCell Central Manager Version lower than 2.4.1

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

The library that uses OnCell Central Manager has been migrated to Apache’s latest release version 4.7.3 which has fixed these vulnerabilities.
Please contact Moxa Technical Support for the security patch.

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    16 March 2020

  • Vendor releases patch

    March 2020

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    November 2019