Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AVEVA Software Platform Common Services (PCS) Portal versions 4.5.2, 4.5.1, 4.5.0, and 4.4.6 are vulnerable to DLL hijacking through an uncontrolled search path element, which may allow an attacker control to one or more locations in the search path.

Remedy

AVEVA recommends organizations evaluate the impact of this vulnerability based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Users of affected versions of the products should apply the corresponding security update as soon as possible. Security update PCS 4.5.3 is available for the following versions: AVEVA Mobile Operator 2020 AVEVA Enterprise Data Management 2021 AVEVA System Platform 2020 R2 P01 AVEVA System Platform 2020 R2 AVEVA Work Tasks 2020 Update 1 Security update PCS 4.4.7 is available for the following versions: AVEVA System Platform 2020 AVEVA Work Tasks 2020 AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System 2020 AVEVA Batch Management 2020 For more information on this issue, including security updates, please see Security Bulletin AVEVA-2021-008.
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a malicious entity with access to the file system to achieve arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation by tricking AVEVA Edge to load an unsafe DLL.

Remedy

AVEVA recommends users upgrade to AVEVA Edge 2023, or AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP2 P01 as soon as possible. Upgrades can be downloaded from the AVEVA official website: AVEVA Edge 2023 https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/#/producthub/details , AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP2 P01 https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/#/producthub/details . * Note: Log-in is required. For additional information, please refer to AVEVA's security advisory AVEVA-2024-002. https://www.aveva.com/en/support-and-success/cyber-security-updates/
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

This privilege escalation vulnerability, if exploited, cloud allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to escalate to System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in complete compromise of the target machine.

Remedy

AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Users of affected products should apply security updates as soon as possible. In addition to applying security updates, users should follow these general precautions: * Ensure that Guest or Anonymous local OS accounts are disabled. * Ensure that only trusted users are able to login on the nodes where the Operations Control Logger is running. Please see AVEVA Security Bulletin number AVEVA-2023-003 https://www.aveva.com/en/support-and-success/cyber-security-updates/  for more information and for links for individual security updates and mitigations for each of the affected products. AVEVA System Platform 2020 through 2020 R2 SP1 cannot be newly installed on top of other AVEVA products which have been previously patched with the Operations Control Logger v22.1. For additional details please refer to Alert 000038736. https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/#/knowledgebase/details/000038736
First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

This external control vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a local OS-authenticated user with standard privileges to delete files with System privilege on the machine where these products are installed, resulting in denial of service.

Remedy

AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Users of affected products should apply security updates as soon as possible. In addition to applying security updates, users should follow these general precautions: * Ensure that Guest or Anonymous local OS accounts are disabled. * Ensure that only trusted users are able to login on the nodes where the Operations Control Logger is running. Please see AVEVA Security Bulletin number AVEVA-2023-003 https://www.aveva.com/en/support-and-success/cyber-security-updates/  for more information and for links for individual security updates and mitigations for each of the affected products. AVEVA System Platform 2020 through 2020 R2 SP1 cannot be newly installed on top of other AVEVA products which have been previously patched with the Operations Control Logger v22.1. For additional details please refer to Alert 000038736. https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/#/knowledgebase/details/000038736
First published (updated )

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