Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-37209 - Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Siemens Ruggedcom ROS
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM i800 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM i801 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM i802 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM i803 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM M2100 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM M2200 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM M969 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RMC30 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RMC8388 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RMC8388 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RP110 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS1600 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS1600F (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS1600T (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS400 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS401 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS416 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS416P (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS416Pv2 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS416Pv2 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RS416v2 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS416v2 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RS8000 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS8000A (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS8000H (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS8000T (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900 (32M) V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900 (32M) V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RS900G (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900G (32M) V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900G (32M) V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RS900GP (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900L (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900M-GETS-C01 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900M-GETS-XX (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900M-STND-C01 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900M-STND-XX (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS900W (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS910 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS910L (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS910W (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS920L (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS920W (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS930L (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS930W (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS940G (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RS969 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2100 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2100 (32M) V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2100 (32M) V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG2100P (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2200 (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2288 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2288 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG2300 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2300 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG2300P V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2300P V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG2488 V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG2488 V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG907R (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG908C (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG909R (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG910C (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSG920P V4.X (All versions < V4.3.8), RUGGEDCOM RSG920P V5.X (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RSL910 (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RST2228 (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RST2228P (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RST916C (All versions < V5.7.0), RUGGEDCOM RST916P (All versions < V5.7.0). The SSH server on affected devices is configured to offer weak ciphers by default. This could allow an unauthorized attacker in a man-in-the-middle position to read and modify any data passed over the connection between legitimate clients and the affected device.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Brute Force In this attack, some asset (information, functionality, identity, etc.) is protected by a finite secret value. The attacker attempts to gain access to this asset by using trial-and-error to exhaustively explore all the possible secret values in the hope of finding the secret (or a value that is functionally equivalent) that will unlock the asset. Examples of secrets can include, but are not limited to, passwords, encryption keys, database lookup keys, and initial values to one-way functions. The key factor in this attack is the attackers' ability to explore the possible secret space rapidly. This, in turn, is a function of the size of the secret space and the computational power the attacker is able to bring to bear on the problem. If the attacker has modest resources and the secret space is large, the challenge facing the attacker is intractable. While the defender cannot control the resources available to an attacker, they can control the size of the secret space. Creating a large secret space involves selecting one's secret from as large a field of equally likely alternative secrets as possible and ensuring that an attacker is unable to reduce the size of this field using available clues or cryptanalysis. Doing this is more difficult than it sounds since elimination of patterns (which, in turn, would provide an attacker clues that would help them reduce the space of potential secrets) is difficult to do using deterministic machines, such as computers. Assuming a finite secret space, a brute force attack will eventually succeed. The defender must rely on making sure that the time and resources necessary to do so will exceed the value of the information. For example, a secret space that will likely take hundreds of years to explore is likely safe from raw-brute force attacks.
- Encryption Brute Forcing An attacker, armed with the cipher text and the encryption algorithm used, performs an exhaustive (brute force) search on the key space to determine the key that decrypts the cipher text to obtain the plaintext.