CVE-2019-6525 — AVEVA Wonderware System Platform 2017 Update 2 and prior uses an ArchestrA netwo

AVEVA Wonderware System Platform 2017 Update 2 and prior uses an ArchestrA network user account for authentication of system processes and inter-node communications. A user with low privileges could make use of an API to obtain the credentials for this account.

01What is this vulnerability?

AVEVA Wonderware System Platform 2017 Update 2 and prior uses an ArchestrA network user account for authentication of system processes and inter-node communications. A user with low privileges could make use of an API to obtain the credentials for this account.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
AVEVA	Wonderware System Platform	2017 Update 2 and prior

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: 2019-04-11T20:21:37.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T20:23:21.335Z

09References

• ics-cert.us-cert.gov — https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-19-029-03
• sw.aveva.com — https://sw.aveva.com/hubfs/assets-2018/pdf/security-bulletin/SecurityBulletin_LF…