CVE-2021-27475

Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench v12.00.00 and prior does not limit the objects that can be deserialized. This vulnerability allows attackers to craft a malicious serialized object that, if opened by a local user in Connected Components Workbench, may result in remote code execution. This vulnerability requires user interaction to be successfully exploited.

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://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1131435
• https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-133-01
• https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1131435
• https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-133-01