ZDI-20-593: Advantech WebAccess/SCADA ViewSrv IOCTL 0x00002723 Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Advantech WebAccess/SCADA. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the implementation of IOCTL 0x00002723 in ViewSrv.dll. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of Administrator.

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.

Read MoreStart Free Trial

• agent/severity
• agent/references
• agent/title
• agent/type
• agent/description
• agent/event
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/tags
• collector/zdi-advisory
• source/ZDI
• alias/ZDI-20-593
• alias/ZDI-CAN-9902
• alias/CVE-2020-10638
• agent/software-canonical-lookup
• vendor/advantech
• canonical/advantech webaccess/scada