CVE-2024-0220

B&R products use insufficient communication encryption

State: Published
Severity: 8.3 High
Published: Feb 22, 2024
Updated: Sep 19, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2024

Description

B&R Automation Studio Upgrade Service and B&R Technology Guarding use insufficient cryptography for communication to the upgrade and the licensing servers. A network-based attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the products or sniff sensitive data.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	ABB

Weaknesses

CWE-1240 Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation
CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Automation StudioB&R Industrial Automation	4.0 to before 4.6Affected
Technology GuardingB&R Industrial Automation	1.0.0 to before 1.4.0Affected

References

https://www.br-automation.com/fileadmin/SA23P019_Automation_Studio_Upgrade_Service_uses_insufficient_encryption.pdf-1b3b181c.pdf

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