CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-32143 — In multiple CODESYS products, file download and upload function allows access to internal files in the working directory e.g

High CVSS 8.8

In multiple CODESYS products, file download and upload function allows access to internal files in the working directory e.g. firmware files of the PLC. All requests are processed on the controller only if no level 1 password is configured on the controller or if remote attacker has previously successfully authenticated himself to the controller. A successful Attack may lead to a denial of service, change of local files, or drain of confidential Information. User interaction is not required

Severity
High
CVSS
8.8 (3.1)
Published
2022-06-24
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-552

Affected products

  • codesys / plcwinnt
  • codesys / runtime_toolkit

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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