CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-48363

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 13, 2024 | Modified: Oct 18, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability has been identified in OpenPCS 7 V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP2 UC05), SIMATIC BATCH V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP2 UC05), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP2 UC05), SIMATIC Route Control V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP2 UC05), SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V18 (All versions < V18 Update 4), SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V19 (All versions < V19 Update 2), SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 (All versions < V7.5 SP2 Update 15), SIMATIC WinCC V8.0 (All versions < V8.0 Update 4). The implementation of the RPC (Remote Procedure call) communication protocol in the affected products do not properly handle certain unorganized RPC messages. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition in the RPC server.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openpcs_7 Siemens * 9.1 (including)
Simatic_batch Siemens * 9.1 (including)
Simatic_pcs_7 Siemens * 9.1 (including)
Simatic_route_control Siemens * 9.1 (including)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 7.4 (including) 7.4 (including)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 7.5 (including) 7.5 (including)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Simatic_wincc_runtime_professional Siemens * 18 (including)
Simatic_wincc_runtime_professional Siemens 19 (including) 19 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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