Advisory Details

November 24th, 2013

ABB MicroSCADA Wserver wserver.exe Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	ABB
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	MicroSCADA
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of ABB MicroSCADA Wserver. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the wserver.exe component which listens on TCP port 12221. This component performs insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data which results in stack corruption. An attacker can leverage this situation to execute code under the context of the user running the application.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	ABB has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www05.abb.com/global/scot/scot229.nsf/veritydisplay/41ccfa8ccd0431e6c1257c1200395574/$file/ABB_SoftwareVulnerabilityHandlingAdvisory_ABB-VU-PSAC-1MRS235805.pdf
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2013-02-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-11-24 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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