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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2019-5077

Severity High
Score 9.1/10

Summary

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the iocheckd service ‘’I/O-Chec’’ functionality of WAGO PFC 200 Firmware versions 03.01.07(13) and 03.00.39(12), and WAGO PFC 100 Firmware version 03.00.39(12). A specially crafted set of packets can cause a denial of service, resulting in the device entering an error state where it ceases all network communications. An attacker can send unauthenticated packets to trigger this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published