Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Schneider Electric Modicon Embedded HTTP Server Out-Of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Schneider Electric Modicon products.

The Modicon PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) control and monitor industrial operations in a sustainable, flexible, efficient and protected way.

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists which could cause a segmentation fault or a buffer overflow by uploading a specially crafted file on the controller over FTP.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Schneider.Electric.Modicon.Web.Server.Memory.Corruption
Released Nov 04, 2020

Users should apply the solution/workaround provided by Schneider Electric.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Schneider Electric on Aug 11, 2020.

Schneider Electric confirmed the vulnerability on Oct 13, 2020.

Schneider Electric provided remediation on Nov 12, 2020.

References

• https://www.se.com/ww/en/download/document/SEVD-2020-315-01/
  

• CVE-2020-7562

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kai Wang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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