CVE-2023-7242 (GCVE-0-2023-7242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-01 20:17 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:57
VLAI
Title
Ethercat Zeek Plugin Out-of-bounds Read
Summary
Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers (ICSNPP) - Ethercat Zeek Plugin versions d78dda6 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds read during the process of analyzing a specific Ethercat packet. This could allow an attacker to crash the Zeek process and leak some information in memory.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-04 14:39 UTC
CWE
Assigner
icscert CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 350 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
CISA Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers (ICSNPP) - Ethercat Plugin for Zeek Affected: 0 , ≤ d78dda6 (custom)
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cisa icsnpp-ethercat Affected: 0 , < d78dda6 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:cisa:icsnpp-ethercat:*:*:*:*:*:zeek:*:*
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Date Public
2024-02-20 20:11
Credits
Cameron Whitehead of HACK@UCF reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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