CVE-2019-10997 — An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 (No

An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 (No.2404267) before 2019.0 LTS and AXC F 2152 STARTERKIT (No.1046568) before 2019.0 LTS devices. Protocol Fuzzing on PC WORX Engineer by a man in the middle attacker stops the PLC service. The device must be rebooted, or the P

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 (No.2404267) before 2019.0 LTS and AXC F 2152 STARTERKIT (No.1046568) before 2019.0 LTS devices. Protocol Fuzzing on PC WORX Engineer by a man in the middle attacker stops the PLC service. The device must be rebooted, or the PLC service must be restarted manually via a Linux shell.

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: 2019-06-17T17:59:18.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:40:15.833Z

09References

• dam-mdc.phoenixcontact.com — https://dam-mdc.phoenixcontact.com/asset/156443151564/fa7be4d04c301f18c6cc0e0872…