5.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.9 Medium
CVSS4
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/SC:N/VI:N/SI:N/VA:H/SA:N/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:M
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause services to crash and restart.
ABB reports that the vulnerability only affects 800xA services in PC based client/server nodes. Controllers are not affected by this vulnerability:
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause services to crash and restart by sending specifically crafted messages.
CVE-2024-3036 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.7 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2024-3036. A base score of 6.9 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (CVSS4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).
Uri Sade, Roman Dvorkin, Ariel Harush, Eran Jacob, and Roni Gavrilov from OTORIO reported these vulnerabilities to ABB.
ABB recommends updating to an active product version to obtain the latest corrections. The problem is or will be corrected in the following product versions:
For more information, please refer to ABB’s Cybersecurity Advisory 7PAA013309.
CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities, such as:
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
CISA also recommends users take the following measures to protect themselves from social engineering attacks:
No known public exploitation specifically targeting these vulnerabilities has been reported to CISA at this time.
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5.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.9 Medium
CVSS4
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/SC:N/VI:N/SI:N/VA:H/SA:N/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:M
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%