CVE-2021-32935

The affected Cognex product, the In-Sight OPC Server versions v5.7.4 (96) and prior, deserializes untrusted data, which could allow a remote attacker access to system level permission commands and local privilege escalation.

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.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-224-01
• https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-224-01