CVE-2018-7851 — CWE-119: Buffer errors vulnerability exists in Modicon M580 with firmware prior

CWE-119: Buffer errors vulnerability exists in Modicon M580 with firmware prior to V2.50, Modicon M340 with firmware prior to V3.01, BMxCRA312xx with firmware prior to V2.40, All firmware versions of Modicon Premium and 140CRA312xxx when sending a specially crafted Modbus packet,

01What is this vulnerability?

CWE-119: Buffer errors vulnerability exists in Modicon M580 with firmware prior to V2.50, Modicon M340 with firmware prior to V3.01, BMxCRA312xx with firmware prior to V2.40, All firmware versions of Modicon Premium and 140CRA312xxx when sending a specially crafted Modbus packet, which could cause a denial of service to the device that would force a restart to restore availability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Modicon M580 with firmware prior to V2.50 Modicon M340 with firmware prior to V3.01 BMxCRA312xx with firmware prior to V2.40 All firmware versions of Modicon Premium and 140CRA312xxx	Modicon M580 with firmware prior to V2.50 Modicon M340 with firmware prior to V3.01 BMxCRA312xx with firmware prior to V2.40 All firmware versions of Modicon Premium and 140CRA312xxx

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2019-05-22T19:56:24.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:37:59.635Z

09References

• www.schneider-electric.com — https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/SEVD-2019-134-10/