Overview
Auto-Maskin RP remote panels and DCU controls units are used to monitor and control ship engines. The units have several authentication and encryption vulnerabilities which can allow attackers to access the units and control connected engines.
Description
CWE 798: Use of Hard-Coded Credentials - CVE–2018-5399 The DCU 210E firmware contains an undocumented Dropbear SSH server with a hardcoded username and password. The password is easily susceptible to cracking. |
Impact
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to observe information about configurations, settings, what sensors are present and in use, and other information. An attacker can send arbitrary ModBus (control) information to the engine control units. |
Solution
CERT/CC is currently unaware of an update to address the vulnerabilities. |
Critical control devices such as these should only be accessible via private, carefully secured networks. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 0 | AV:--/AC:--/Au:--/C:--/I:--/A:-- |
| Temporal | 0 | E:ND/RL:ND/RC:ND |
| Environmental | 0 | CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Brian Satira and Brian Olson for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Dan Klinedinst.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE–2018-5399, CVE-2018-5400, CVE-2018-5401, CVE-2018-5402 |
| Date Public: | 2018-10-06 |
| Date First Published: | 2018-10-06 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2018-10-16 18:51 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 16 |