08 November 2023
KLCERT-22-211: Telit Cinterion (Thales/Gemalto) modules. Relative Path Traversal
Vendor
Telit Cinterion
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CVE
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KLCERT
KLCERT-22-211
Timeline
Timeline
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Kaspersky ICS CERT advisory published
08 November 2023
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Vulnerability reported
February 2023
Description
A CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal vulnerability exists in Telit Cinterion BGS5, Telit Cinterion EHS5/6/8, Telit Cinterion PDS5/6/8, Telit Cinterion ELS61/81, Telit Cinterion PLS62 that could allow a local, low privileged attacker to escape from virtual directories and get read/write access to protected files on the targeted system.
CVSS v3
Exploitability
Locally
Attack complexity
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Impact
Affected products
The following Telit products:
- Telit Cinterion BGS5 (All versions)
- Telit Cinterion EHS5/6/8 (All versions)
- Telit Cinterion PDS5/6/8 (All versions)
- Telit Cinterion ELS61/81 (All versions)
- Telit Cinterion PLS62 (All versions).
Mitigation
Kaspersky ICS CERT mitigation
- Enforce application signature verification to prohibit the installation of untrusted MIDlets on the device;
- Control physical access to the device at all stages of transportation to protect against the embedding of backdoors.
Kaspersky publishes information on newly identified vulnerabilities in order to raise user awareness of the IT security threats detected. Kaspersky does not make any guarantees with respect to 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.
