CVE-2023-38380

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CP 1242-7 V2 (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 DNP3 (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 IEC (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-7 LTE (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-8 IRC (6GK7243-8RX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1543-1 (6GK7543-1AX00-0XE0) (All versions < V3.0.37), SINAMICS S210 (6SL5…) (All versions >= V6.1 < V6.1 HF2), SIPLUS NET CP 1543-1 (6AG1543-1AX00-2XE0) (All versions < V3.0.37). The webserver implementation of the affected products does not correctly release allocated memory after it has been used.

An attacker with network access could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition in the webserver of the affected product.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-693975.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-693975.pdf