Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-10936 - Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in Siemens products
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-3 PN/DP V7, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414F-3 PN/DP V7, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 416-3 PN/DP V7, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 416F-3 PN/DP V7, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: DK Standard Ethernet Controller, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200P, SIMATIC CFU PA, SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8 PN/DP CPU, SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8F PN/DP CPU, SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8FX PN/DP CPU, SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU, SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8F PN/DP CPU, SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200AL, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 16DI, DC24V, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 16DO DC24V/1,3A, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 4AO U/I 4xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8 DIO, DC24V/1,3A, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8 DO, DC24V/2A, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8AI RTD/TC 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8AI; 4 U/I; 4 RTD/TC 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8DI, DC24V, 4xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8DI, DC24V, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8DO, DC24V/0,5A, 4xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8DO, DC24V/1,3A, 4xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, 8DO, DC24V/1,3A, 8xM12, SIMATIC ET200ecoPN: IO-Link Master, SIMATIC ET200M (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200MP IM155-5 PN BA (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200MP IM155-5 PN HF (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200MP IM155-5 PN ST (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200pro, SIMATIC ET200S (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN BA (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN HA (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN HF (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN HS (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN ST (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN/2 HF (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN/3 HF (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC HMI Comfort Outdoor Panels 7" & 15" (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels 4" - 22" (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC HMI KTP Mobile Panels, SIMATIC PN/PN Coupler, SIMATIC PROFINET Driver, SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 314C-2 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315-2 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315F-2 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315T-3 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317-2 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317F-2 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317T-3 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317TF-3 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319-3 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319F-3 PN/DP, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-2 PN V7, SIMATIC S7-400 H V6 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V6 and below CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC S7-410 V8 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants), SIMATIC TDC CP51M1, SIMATIC TDC CPU555, SIMATIC WinAC RTX 2010, SIMATIC WinAC RTX F 2010, SINAMICS DCM, SINAMICS DCP, SINAMICS G110M V4.7 PN Control Unit, SINAMICS G120 V4.7 PN Control Unit (incl. SIPLUS variants), SINAMICS G130 V4.7 Control Unit, SINAMICS G150 Control Unit, SINAMICS GH150 V4.7 Control Unit, SINAMICS GL150 V4.7 Control Unit, SINAMICS GM150 V4.7 Control Unit, SINAMICS S110 Control Unit, SINAMICS S120 V4.7 Control Unit (incl. SIPLUS variants), SINAMICS S150 Control Unit, SINAMICS SL150 V4.7 Control Unit, SINAMICS SM120 V4.7 Control Unit, SINUMERIK 828D, SINUMERIK 840D sl, SIPLUS ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU, SIPLUS ET 200S IM151-8F PN/DP CPU, SIPLUS NET PN/PN Coupler, SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 314C-2 PN/DP, SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 315-2 PN/DP, SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 315F-2 PN/DP, SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 317-2 PN/DP, SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 317F-2 PN/DP, SIPLUS S7-400 CPU 414-3 PN/DP V7, SIPLUS S7-400 CPU 416-3 PN/DP V7. Affected devices improperly handle large amounts of specially crafted UDP packets. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a denial of service condition.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- XML Ping of the Death An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
- XML Entity Expansion An attacker submits an XML document to a target application where the XML document uses nested entity expansion to produce an excessively large output XML. XML allows the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.
- Inducing Account Lockout An attacker leverages the security functionality of the system aimed at thwarting potential attacks to launch a denial of service attack against a legitimate system user. Many systems, for instance, implement a password throttling mechanism that locks an account after a certain number of incorrect log in attempts. An attacker can leverage this throttling mechanism to lock a legitimate user out of their own account. The weakness that is being leveraged by an attacker is the very security feature that has been put in place to counteract attacks.
- Violating Implicit Assumptions Regarding XML Content (aka XML Denial of Service (XDoS)) XML Denial of Service (XDoS) can be applied to any technology that utilizes XML data. This is, of course, most distributed systems technology including Java, .Net, databases, and so on. XDoS is most closely associated with web services, SOAP, and Rest, because remote service requesters can post malicious XML payloads to the service provider designed to exhaust the service provider's memory, CPU, and/or disk space. The main weakness in XDoS is that the service provider generally must inspect, parse, and validate the XML messages to determine routing, workflow, security considerations, and so on. It is exactly these inspection, parsing, and validation routines that XDoS targets. There are three primary attack vectors that XDoS can navigate Target CPU through recursion: attacker creates a recursive payload and sends to service provider Target memory through jumbo payloads: service provider uses DOM to parse XML. DOM creates in memory representation of XML document, but when document is very large (for example, north of 1 Gb) service provider host may exhaust memory trying to build memory objects. XML Ping of death: attack service provider with numerous small files that clog the system. All of the above attacks exploit the loosely coupled nature of web services, where the service provider has little to no control over the service requester and any messages the service requester sends.