Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-24946 - Improper Locking vulnerability in Mitsubishielectric products
Summary
Improper Resource Locking vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R Series R12CCPU-V firmware versions "16" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q03UDECPU the first 5 digits of serial No. "24061" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q04/06/10/13/20/26/50/100UDEHCPU the first 5 digits of serial No. "24061" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q03/04/06/13/26UDVCPU the first 5 digits of serial number "24051" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q04/06/13/26UDPVCPU the first 5 digits of serial number "24051" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q12DCCPU-V all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q24DHCCPU-V(G) all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q24/26DHCCPU-LS all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-L series L02/06/26CPU(-P) the first 5 digits of serial number "24051" and prior, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-L series L26CPU-(P)BT the first 5 digits of serial number "24051" and prior and Mitsubishi Electric MELIPC Series MI5122-VW firmware versions "05" and prior allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition in Ethernet communications by sending specially crafted packets. A system reset of the products is required for recovery.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links This attack leverages the use of symbolic links (Symlinks) in order to write to sensitive files. An attacker can create a Symlink link to a target file not otherwise accessible to her. When the privileged program tries to create a temporary file with the same name as the Symlink link, it will actually write to the target file pointed to by the attackers' Symlink link. If the attacker can insert malicious content in the temporary file she will be writing to the sensitive file by using the Symlink. The race occurs because the system checks if the temporary file exists, then creates the file. The attacker would typically create the Symlink during the interval between the check and the creation of the temporary file.