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| KL-IDS | KLCERT-18-025 |
| CVE-IDS | CVE-2018-15362 |
| Publication date | 2018.12.07 |
| Researcher | Sergey Temnikov, Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT |
| Description | An XXE injection vulnerability leads to path traversal inside the Proficy server. An attacker may be able to initiate an OPC UA session and retrieve an arbitrary file from the target system. |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to initiate an OPC UA session and retrieve an arbitrary file. |
| Severity | |
| CVSS v3 Base Score: | 8.2 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
| Exploitability | Remotely |
| Difficulty | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Existence of exploit | Unknown |
| Affected products | |
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| Mitigation | |
| Vendor mitigation | GE recommends users update to Version 2.1 or newer. The fixed version is available at the following link: https://ge-ip.flexnetoperations.com/control/geip/download?element=10544807 (Login required) |
| Timeline | Jan 2017 – The vulnerability is reported Jan 2018 – The vendor has stopped replying regarding this issue. The problem is escalated to US ICS-CERT Dec 2018 – The vendor releases a patch Dec 2018 – An advisory is published |