CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-33139

Use of Client-Side Authentication

Published: Jun 21, 2022 | Modified: Feb 13, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability has been identified in Cerberus DMS (All versions), Desigo CC (All versions), Desigo CC Compact (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.16 (All versions in default configuration), SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.17 (All versions in non-default configuration), SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.18 (All versions in non-default configuration). Affected applications use client-side only authentication, when neither server-side authentication (SSA) nor Kerberos authentication is enabled. In this configuration, attackers could impersonate other users or exploit the client-server protocol without being authenticated.

Weakness

A client/server product performs authentication within client code but not in server code, allowing server-side authentication to be bypassed via a modified client that omits the authentication check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cerberus_dms Siemens * *
Desigo_cc Siemens * *
Desigo_cc_compact Siemens * *
Wincc_open_architecture Siemens 3.16 (including) 3.16 (including)
Wincc_open_architecture Siemens 3.17 (including) 3.17 (including)
Wincc_open_architecture Siemens 3.18 (including) 3.18 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References