CVE-2018-19185 — An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1

An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in BerEncoder_encodeOctetString in mms/asn1/ber_encoder.c. This is exploitable even after CVE-2018-18834 has been patched, with a different dataSetValue sequence than the CVE-2018-18834 attack vector.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in BerEncoder_encodeOctetString in mms/asn1/ber_encoder.c. This is exploitable even after CVE-2018-18834 has been patched, with a different dataSetValue sequence than the CVE-2018-18834 attack vector.

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

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-12T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:30:04.028Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libiec61850#another-heap-buffer-o…
• github.com — https://github.com/mz-automation/libiec61850/issues/87