Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Schneider Electric Smart-UPS SRT 5000 User Creation Misconfiguration Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs had discovered a misconfiguration on user creation implementation vulnerability in Schneider Electric Smart-UPS SRT 5000.


Schneider Electric Smart-UPS is an intelligent and efficient network power protection from entry level to scaleable runtime.


This vulnerability allows attacker to create a hidden user account that could be served as a backdoor account not visible from the user management interface.


Solutions

Users should apply the solution provided by Schneider Electric.

Additional Information

The vulnerability affected Schneider Electric Smart-UPS SRT 5000 Network Management Card 2 (NMC2) version 6.9.6 and earlier.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Schneider Electric on 30th December, 2020.

Schneider Electric confirmed the vulnerability on 20th  January, 2021. 

Schneider Electric  released patch for the vulnerability on 9th November, 2021.

References

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Nguyen Thanh Nguyen of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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