Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-19300 - Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in Siemens products
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200 (All versions), Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200P (All versions), KTK ATE530S (All versions), SIDOOR ATD430W (All versions), SIDOOR ATE530S COATED (All versions), SIDOOR ATE531S (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8 PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8F PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8FX PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8F PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V2.0), SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC2 (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V2.0), SIMATIC ET200AL IM157-1 PN (All versions), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, AI 8xRTD/TC, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, CM 4x IO-Link, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, CM 8x IO-Link, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, CM 8x IO-Link, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, DI 16x24VDC, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, DI 8x24VDC, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, DIQ 16x24VDC/2A, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, DQ 8x24VDC/0,5A, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200ecoPN, DQ 8x24VDC/2A, M12-L (All versions >= V5.1.1), SIMATIC ET200MP IM155-5 PN HF (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions >= V4.2), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 MF HF (All versions), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN HA (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN HF (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions >= V4.2), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN/2 HF (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions >= V4.2), SIMATIC ET200SP IM155-6 PN/3 HF (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions >= V4.2), SIMATIC MICRO-DRIVE PDC (All versions), SIMATIC PN/MF Coupler (All versions), SIMATIC PN/PN Coupler (All versions >= V4.2), SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V4.4.0), SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V2.0), SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller (All versions < V2.0), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 314C-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315F-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315T-3 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317F-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317T-3 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317TF-3 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319-3 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319F-3 PN/DP (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 H V6 CPU family and below (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V7 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-410 V10 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-410 V8 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC TDC CP51M1 (All versions), SIMATIC TDC CPU555 (All versions), SIMATIC WinAC RTX 2010 (All versions), SIMATIC WinAC RTX F 2010 (All versions), SINAMICS S/G Control Unit w. PROFINET (All versions), SIPLUS ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIPLUS ET 200S IM151-8F PN/DP CPU (All versions), SIPLUS NET PN/PN Coupler (All versions >= V4.2), SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 314C-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 315-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 315F-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 317-2 PN/DP (All versions), SIPLUS S7-300 CPU 317F-2 PN/DP (All versions). The Interniche-based TCP Stack can be forced to make very expensive calls for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.
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.