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CVE-2019-5637 (GCVE-0-2019-5637)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-21 19:16 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:35
VLAI
Title
Beckhoff TwinCAT Profinet Driver Divide-by-Zero Denial of Service
Summary
When Beckhoff TwinCAT is configured to use the Profinet driver, a denial of service of the controller could be reached by sending a malformed UDP packet to the device. This issue affects TwinCAT 2 version 2304 (and prior) and TwinCAT 3.1 version 4204.0 (and prior).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Beckhoff TwinCAT 2 Affected: 2304 , ≤ 2304 (custom)
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Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.1 Affected: 4204.0 , ≤ 4204.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-10-08 00:00
Credits
This issue was discovered, and reported to Rapid7, by Andreas Galauner at Rapid7. It is being disclosed in accordance with Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/disclosure/).
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