18 October 2018

KLCERT-18-018: Moxa ThingsPro IIoT Gateway and Device Management Software Solutions: User Enumeration

Vendor

Moxa

Researcher

Alexander Nochvay, Kaspersky ICS CERT

Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    18 October 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    October 2018

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    January 2018

Description

User Enumeration in Moxa ThingsPro IIoT Gateway and Device Management Software.

Exploitability

Remotely

Attack complexity

Low

User interaction

None

Impact

A remote attacker can find valid users in web applications and use brute force to exploit this vulnerability to find the corresponding password.

Existence of exploit

Unknown

Affected products

Moxa ThingsPro v. 2.1

Mitigation

Vendor mitigation

Use stronger password, for example:

  • Minimum 8 characters
  • At least one digit: 0 to 9
  • Combination of lower and upper case: A to Z, a to z
  • At least one special character: ~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,-

Moxa has addressed these vulnerabilities with a new firmware release for ThingsPro Gateway Edition 2.3, please contact your sales representative to get the firmware.

Kaspersky Lab publishes information on newly identified vulnerabilities in order to raise user awareness of the IT security threats detected. Kaspersky Lab does not make any guarantees in respect of information received from vendors of products in which vulnerabilities have been identified, which is included in the following sections of the advisory: Affected Products, Vendor Mitigation.

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    18 October 2018

  • Vendor releases patch

    October 2018

  • Vulnerabilities reported

    January 2018