Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH up to 1.34 Web UI Bruteforce privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH up to 1.34. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some processing of the component Web UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (Bruteforce). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 05/06/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-13990 since 07/11/2018. The exploitation is known to be difficult. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.35 eliminates this vulnerability.

Vendor

• Phoenix Contact

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• FL SWITCH

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.0
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Class: Privilege escalation / Bruteforce (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Upgrade: FL SWITCH 1.35

07/11/2018 CVE assigned
05/06/2019 +299 days Advisory disclosed
05/07/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
05/07/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2018-13990 (?)Created: 05/07/2019 07:13 AM
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