CVE-2018-19093 — An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1

An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3. It is a SEGV in ControlObjectClient_setCommandTerminationHandler in client/client_control.c. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because it requires incorrect usage of the client_example_control program

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3. It is a SEGV in ControlObjectClient_setCommandTerminationHandler in client/client_control.c. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because it requires incorrect usage of the client_example_control program

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-07T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:30:03.486Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/mz-automation/libiec61850/issues/84
• github.com — https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libiec61850#segv-in-function-cont…