Security News > 2020 > May > Vulnerabilities Found in Emerson SCADA Product Made for Oil and Gas Industry
A researcher from Kaspersky has identified several vulnerabilities in Emerson OpenEnterprise, a supervisory control and data acquisition solution designed for the oil and gas industry.
Roman Lozko, a researcher at Kaspersky's ICS CERT unit, discovered four vulnerabilities in Emerson OpenEnterprise.
According to Emerson, OpenEnterprise is specifically designed to address the requirements of organizations focusing on oil and gas production, transmission and distribution.
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"The most critical vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute any command on a computer with OpenEnterprise on it with system privileges, so this might lead to any possible consequences," Vladimir Dashchenko, security expert at Kaspersky, told SecurityWeek.