Published:2021/10/15  Last Updated:2021/10/29

JVNVU#90041391
OMRON CX-Supervisor vulnerable to out-of-bounds read

Overview

OMRON CX-Supervisor contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability.

Products Affected

  • CX-Supervisor v4.0.0.13 and v4.0.0.16
The developer states that validation on v4.0.0.13 and v4.0.0.16 was conducted and the vulnerability was confirmed on those versions. However other versions may be affected by this vulnerability. CX-Supervisor is the product sold outside Japan.

Description

CX-Supervisor provided by OMRON Corporation contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CWE-125, CVE-2021-20836).

Impact

If a user of the product has access to change system settings and opens a specially crafted SCS project file, information disclosure and/or arbitrary code execution may occur.

Solution

Update the software
Update the software to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.
The developer released the following version that contains the fix for this vulnerability.

  • CX-Supervisor 4.1.1.2

Vendor Status

References

JPCERT/CC Addendum

Vulnerability Analysis by JPCERT/CC

CVSS v3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score: 6.5
Attack Vector(AV) Physical (P) Local (L) Adjacent (A) Network (N)
Attack Complexity(AC) High (H) Low (L)
Privileges Required(PR) High (H) Low (L) None (N)
User Interaction(UI) Required (R) None (N)
Scope(S) Unchanged (U) Changed (C)
Confidentiality Impact(C) None (N) Low (L) High (H)
Integrity Impact(I) None (N) Low (L) High (H)
Availability Impact(A) None (N) Low (L) High (H)

Credit

Michael Heinzl reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer.

Other Information

JPCERT Alert
JPCERT Reports
CERT Advisory
CPNI Advisory
TRnotes
CVE CVE-2021-20836
JVN iPedia

Update History

2021/10/29
Added information under [Other Information] section.