Posted on Tuesday January 28, 2025
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to loss of confidentiality, integrity, and potential remote code execution on workstation when a non-admin authenticated user opens a malicious project file.
Schneider Electric reports that the following products are affected:
A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability exists that could lead to loss of confidentiality, integrity, and potential remote code execution on workstation when a non-admin authenticated user opens a malicious project file.
CVE-2024-12703 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2024-12703. A base score of 8.5 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECTORS: Energy, Critical Manufacturing.
Schneider Electric reported this vulnerability to CISA.
Schneider Electric is establishing a remediation plan for all future versions of RemoteConnect and SCADAPackTM x70 Utilities that will include a fix for this vulnerability. Until then, Schneider Electric recommends that users should immediately apply the following mitigations to reduce the risk of exploit:
CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability, 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. 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 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 this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time. This vulnerability is not exploitable remotely.