CVE-2020-12015

A specially crafted communication packet sent to the affected systems could cause a denial-of-service condition due to improper deserialization. This issue affects: Mitsubishi Electric MC Works64 version 4.02C (10.95.208.31) and earlier, all versions; Mitsubishi Electric MC Works32 version 3.00A (9.50.255.02); ICONICS GenBroker64, Platform Services, Workbench, FrameWorX Server version 10.96 and prior; ICONICS GenBroker32 version 9.5 and prior.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-170-02
• https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-170-03
• https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-170-02
• https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-170-03