CVE-2023-46144 (GCVE-0-2023-46144)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-14 14:08 – Updated: 2024-10-01 06:18
VLAI
Title
PHOENIX CONTACT: PLCnext Control prone to download of code without integrity check
Summary
A download of code without integrity check vulnerability in PLCnext products allows an remote attacker with low privileges to compromise integrity on the affected engineering station and the connected devices.
CWE
  • CWE-494 - Download of Code Without Integrity Check
Assigner
CERTVDE CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 167 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 1152 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 2152 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 3152 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT BPC 9102S Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT EPC 1502 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT EPC 1522 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT PLCnext Engineer Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT RFC 4072R Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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PHOENIX CONTACT RFC 4072S Affected: 0 , ≤ 2024.0 (semver)
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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

Events included in the timeline

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    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.