Several recommended practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.Īdditional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available in the ICS‑CERT Technical Information Paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B-Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies, that is available for download from the ICS-CERT web site ( ). ICS-CERT also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS-CERT web page at. ICS-CERT reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures. Also recognize that VPN is only as secure as the connected devices.
Inductive Automation has developed a patch for these vulnerabilities and recommends updating as soon as possible. DIFFICULTYĪn attacker with a low skill would be able to exploit these vulnerabilities. EXISTENCE OF EXPLOITĮxploits that target these vulnerabilities are not publicly available. The exploit is only triggered when a local user runs the vulnerable application and loads the malformed URL to the JNLP. These vulnerabilities are not exploitable remotely and cannot be exploited without user interaction. A CVSS v2 base score of 9.0 has been assigned the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).
Used hash algorithm - MD5, is known to be vulnerable to brute force attacks and not considered secure.
USE OF PASSWORD HASH WITH INSUFFICIENT COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT pĭatabase storage of accounts by default in Windows and Database storage of accounts by default in Linux. VULNERABILITY CHARACTERIZATION VULNERABILITY OVERVIEW Inductive Automation estimates that this product is used primarily in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and across Asia. According to Inductive Automation, Ignition is deployed across several sectors including Communications, Energy, Food and Agriculture, and Water and Wastewater Systems. Ignition is a human-machine interface/SCADA product used in a variety of industrial applications.
The affected product, Ignition, is an updated version of FactoryPMI, offered by Inductive Automation. Inductive Automation is a Folsom, California-based supplier of web-based industrial automation software. NCCIC/ICS-CERT recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Impact to individual organizations depends on many factors that are unique to each organization. The following Inductive Automation product is affected: These vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely. Inductive Automation has produced a patch that mitigates these vulnerabilities. Evgeny Druzhinin, Alexey Osipov, Ilya Karpov, and Gleb Gritsai of Positive Technologies have identified several vulnerabilities in Inductive Automation’s Ignition Software.