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CVE-2018-7842 — Schneider-Electric Modicon M580 Firmware security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.8

A CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability exists in all versions of the Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon Premium which could cause an elevation of privilege by conducting a brute force attack on Modbus parameters sent to the controller.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2019-05-22
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-290

Affected products

  • schneider-electric / modicon_m580_firmware
  • schneider-electric / modicon_m340_firmware
  • schneider-electric / modicon_quantum_firmware
  • schneider-electric / modicon_premium_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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