Advisory Details

July 1st, 2016

Trihedral VTScada Path Out-Of-Bounds Indexing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-4523
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Trihedral Engineering Ltd
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	VTScada
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Trihedral VTScada. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Wireless Application Protocol requests. The issue lies in the failure to traverse user-supplied paths. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the user running the service.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Trihedral Engineering Ltd has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-159-01
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2016-02-18 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-07-01 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Anonymous

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