Fortinet Discovers Schneider Electric Smart-UPS SRT 5000 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs had discovered a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Policy Configuration of Schneider Electric Smart-UPS SRT 5000.


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


The vulnerability is caused by insufficient input sanitization in Smart-UPS SRT 5000 policy configuration page. Upon successful exploitation, it allows attackers to launch client-side script execution in the browser's process context.


Solutions

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

Schneider.SmartUPS.ConfirmPolicyDelete.XSS
Released Sep 22, 2021

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) Policy Configuration version 6.9.6 and earlier.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Schneider Electric on 13th January, 2021.

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

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

Acknowledgement

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

IPS Subscription

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