CVE-2023-3373

Predictable Exact Value from Previous Values vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GOT2000 Series GT21 model versions 01.49.000 and prior and GOT SIMPLE Series GS21 model versions 01.49.000 and prior allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to hijack data connections (session hijacking) or prevent legitimate users from establishing data connections (to cause DoS condition) by guessing the listening port of the data connection on FTP server and connecting to it.

Weakness

The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a well-vetted algorithm that is currently considered to be strong by experts in the field, and select well-tested implementations with adequate length seeds.
• In general, if a pseudo-random number generator is not advertised as being cryptographically secure, then it is probably a statistical PRNG and should not be used in security-sensitive contexts.
• Pseudo-random number generators can produce predictable numbers if the generator is known and the seed can be guessed. A 256-bit seed is a good starting point for producing a “random enough” number.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/112.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/485.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html

References

• https://jvn.jp/vu/JVNVU92167394/index.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-215-01
• https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/en/psirt/vulnerability/pdf/2023-006_en.pdf