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ID

VDE-2020-007

Published

2020-03-09 10:10 (CET)

Last update

2020-03-09 10:10 (CET)

Vendor(s)

WAGO GmbH & Co. KG

Product(s)

Article No° Product Name Affected Version(s)
750-81xx/xxx-xxx (PFC100) >= FW05
750-82xx/xxx-xxx (PFC200) >= FW05
762-4xxx >= FW05
762-5xxx >= FW05
762-6xxx >= FW05

Summary

The Web-Based Management (WBM) of WAGOs programmable logic controller (PLC) is typically used for commissioning and update. The controller is an embedded device which has limited resources. The vulnerability described here takes advantage of this fact.
With special crafted requests it is possible to have a denial of service of the WBM.


Last Update:

April 14, 2020, 1:19 p.m.

Weakness

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption  (CWE-400) 

Summary

The WBM web application on firmwares prior to 03.02.02 and 03.01.07 on the WAGO PFC100 and PFC2000, respectively, runs on a lighttpd web server and makes use of the FastCGI module, which is intended to provide high performance for all Internet applications without the penalties of Web server APIs. However, the default configuration of this module appears to limit the number of concurrent php-cgi processes to two, which can be abused to cause a denial of service of the entire web server. This affects WAGO PFC200 Firmware version 03.00.39(12) and version 03.01.07(13), and WAGO PFC100 Firmware version 03.00.39(12) and version 03.02.02(14).


Impact

The default configuration of the web server limits the number of concurrent processes, which can be abused to cause a DoS of the WBM.
This vulnerability allows an attacker, who has access to the device, to cause a denial of service of the WBM, by sending special crafted requests.

Solution

Mitigation

  • Follow the instructions in WAGOs handbook Cyber Security for Controller
  • Restrict network access to the device.
  • Do not directly connect the device to the internet

Solution

Due to the limited resources on the embedded device, it is necessary to protect it from unauthorized access such as denial of service attacks.

Reported by

This vulnerability was reported by Daniel Patrick DeSantis, Cisco Talos to WAGO. Coordination done by CERT@VDE.