CVE-2018-5443 — A SQL Injection issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA versions prior

A SQL Injection issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA versions prior to V8.2_20170817. WebAccess/SCADA does not properly sanitize its inputs for SQL commands.

01What is this vulnerability?

A SQL Injection issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA versions prior to V8.2_20170817. WebAccess/SCADA does not properly sanitize its inputs for SQL commands.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Advantech WebAccess/SCADA	Advantech WebAccess/SCADA

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: 2018-01-25T03:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T05:33:44.434Z

09References

• ics-cert.us-cert.gov — https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-023-01
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102781