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CVE-2018-7794 — Schneider-Electric Modicon M580 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability exists in Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Modicon Quantum, Modicon Premium (see security notification for specific versions) which could cause a Denial of Service when reading data with invalid index using Modbus TCP.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-01-06
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-754

Affected products

  • schneider-electric / modicon_m580_firmware
  • schneider-electric / modicon_m340_firmware
  • schneider-electric / tsxh5744m_firmware
  • schneider-electric / tsxh5724m_firmware
  • schneider-electric / tsxp576634m_firmware
  • schneider-electric / tsxp57554m_firmware

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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