13 July 2021

KLCERT-20-026: Rockwell Automation ISaGRAF Runtime: Information Disclosure due to cleartext storage of passwords in a file and memory

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Timeline

Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    13 July 2021

  • Rockwell Automation published the advisory

    08 June 2021

  • Rockwell Automation confirmed the vulnerability

    11 March 2020

  • Vulnerability reported

    21 February 2020

Description

ISaGRAF Runtime stores the password in plaintext in memory and in a file which is located in the same directory with the executable file ISAGRAF.exe.


Exploitability

Locally exploitable

Attack complexity

⚠ Low skill level to exploit: an attacker must perform Man-in-the-Middle attack

Privilege required

Low privilege level required: it is required to have “read” privilege level on the filesystem

User interaction

⚠ No user interaction required

Confidentiality

⚠ Confidentiality of the system may be seriously affected

Impact

A local attacker could compromise the user’s password by dumping memory or reading a specific file.

Affected products

  • AADvance Controller:
    • All firmware versions
  • Based on ISaGRAF Runtime 5 controllers:
    • All software versions
  • ISaGRAF Free Runtime:
    • All software versions

Mitigation

Rockwell Automation mitigation

Rockwell Automation recommends upgrading to ISaGRAF Runtime 5 version 5.72.00.

Customers should ensure that the least-privilege user principle is followed, and user/service account access to Runtime’s folder location is granted with a minimum amount of rights as needed.

For ISaGRAF, restrict or block traffic on TCP 1131 from outside of the industrial control system network zone. For more information on the TCP/UDP ports used by ISaGRAF refer to product documentation.

Since ISaGRAF 5 Runtime is provided to a customer as a development kit, implementing least-privilege may vary from implementation to implementation based on the hardware in use.

For AADvance controllers, customers are encouraged to restrict or block traffic on TCP 1132 from outside of the industrial control system network zone.1


  1. For more information on the TCP/UDP ports used by Rockwell Automation products, see BF7490.↩︎

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Timeline

  • Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published

    13 July 2021

  • Rockwell Automation published the advisory

    08 June 2021

  • Rockwell Automation confirmed the vulnerability

    11 March 2020

  • Vulnerability reported

    21 February 2020