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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause information disclosure of a restricted web page, modification of a web page, and a denial of service when specific web pages are modified and restricted functions invoked.
The following Schneider Electric products, Modicon M340 and BMXNOE0100/0110, BMXNOR0200H, are affected:
The affected products are vulnerable to an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerability, which could cause information disclosure of restricted web page, modification of web page, and denial of service when specific web pages are modified and restricted functions invoked.
CVE-2024-12142 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).
Schneider Electric reported this vulnerability to CISA.
Schneider Electric has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations users can apply to reduce risk:
BMXNOR0200H: Version SV1.70IR26 of BMXNOR0200H includes a fix for this vulnerability and is available for download.
Users should use appropriate patching methodologies when applying these patches to their systems. Schneider Electric strongly recommends the use of back-ups and evaluating the impact of these patches in a testing and development environment, or on an offline infrastructure. Contact Schneider Electric’s Customer Care Center for assistance removing a patch.
Schneider Electric is establishing a remediation plan for all future versions of Modicon M340 processors BMXP34*, BMXNOE0100 and BMXNOE0110 that will include a fix for this vulnerability. They will provide an update when the remediation is available. Until then, users should immediately apply the following mitigations to reduce the risk of exploit:
Schneider Electric strongly recommends the following industry cybersecurity best practices.
For more information refer to the Schneider Electric Recommended Cybersecurity Best Practices document.
For more information, see Schneider Electric security notification “SEVD-2025-014-05 Web Server on Modicon M340 and BMXNOE0100/0110, BMXNOR0200H communication modules”
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in information disclosure, workstation integrity and potential remote code execution on the compromised computer.
The following versions of Web Designer for Modicon are affected:
The affected product is vulnerable to an improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability that could cause information disclosure, impacts to workstation integrity, and potential remote code execution on the compromised computer when a specifically crafted XML file is imported in the Web Designer configuration tool.
CVE-2024-12476 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Jin Huang of ADLab of Venustech reported this vulnerability Schneider Electric.
Web Designer tool project file is based on XML language with specific parameters. To ensure the integrity of this file please follow the recommendations below:
To ensure you are informed of all updates, including details on affected products and remediation plans, subscribe to Schneider Electric’s security notification service here: https://www.se.com/ww/en/work/support/cybersecurity/security-notifications.jsp
Schneider Electric strongly recommends the following industry cybersecurity best practices.
For more information refer to the Schneider Electric Recommended Cybersecurity Best Practices document.
For more information, see Schneider Electric security notification “SEVD-2025-014-04 Web Server on Modicon M340 and BMXNOE0100/0110, BMXNOR0200H communication modules”
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
CISA also recommends users take the following measures to protect themselves from social engineering attacks:
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time. This vulnerability is not exploitable remotely.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow man-in-the-middle attacks, resulting in information disclosure, integrity issues, and operational failures.
The following versions of Pro-face GP-Pro EX and Remote HMI are affected:
The affected products are vulnerable to an improper enforcement of message integrity during transmission in a communication channel vulnerability that could cause partial loss of confidentiality, loss of integrity, and availability of the HMI when attacker performs man-in-the-middle attack by intercepting the communication.
CVE-2024-12399 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2024-12399. A base score of 6.1 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).
Haichuan Xu from the Georgia Institute of Technology reported this vulnerability to Schneider Electric.
Schneider Electric is establishing a remediation plan for all future versions of Pro-face GP-Pro EX and Pro-face Remote HMI that will include a fix for this vulnerability. Schneider Electric will provide an update when the remediation is available. Until then, users should immediately apply the following mitigations to reduce the risk of exploit:
For users requiring the use of Pro-face Remote HMI, Schneider Electric recommends using following mitigations:
For users not using the Pro-face Remote HMI, Schneider Electric recommends using following mitigations to reduce the risk of exploit:
Schneider Electric strongly recommends the following industry cybersecurity best practices.
For more information refer to the Schneider Electric Recommended Cybersecurity Best Practices document.
For more information, see Schneider Electric security notification “SEVD-2025-014-02 Schneider Electric Security Notification Pro-face GP-Pro EX and Remote HMI”
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
CISA also recommends users take the following measures to protect themselves from social engineering attacks:
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or achieve remote code execution on the affected device.
The following Automation Direct products are affected:
AutomationDirect C-more EA9 HMI contains a function with bounds checks that can be skipped, which could result in an attacker abusing the function to cause a denial-of-service condition or achieving remote code execution on the affected device.
CVE-2025-0960 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2025-0960. A base score of 9.3 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).
Sharon Brizinov of Claroty Team82 reported this vulnerability to CISA.
AutomationDirect recommends that users update C-MORE EA9 HMI software and firmware to V6.80.
If an immediate update is not feasible, AutomationDirect recommends considering the following interim steps until the programming software can be updated:
For more information, please see the AutomationDirect security advisory.
CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability, such as:
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause a denial-of-service of the product when an unauthenticated user sends a crafted HTTPS packet to the webserver.
The following versions of Modicon M580 PLCs, BMENOR2200H and EVLink Pro AC are affected:
The affected product is vulnerable to an incorrect calculation of buffer size vulnerability which could cause a denial-of-service of the product when an unauthenticated user is sending a crafted HTTPS packet to the webserver.
CVE-2024-11425 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
A CVSS v4 score has also been calculated for CVE-2024-11425. A base score of 8.7 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).
Schneider Electric reported this vulnerability to CISA.
Schneider Electric has identified the following remediations users can apply to reduce risk:
Users should use appropriate patching methodologies when applying these patches to their systems. Schneider Electric strongly recommends making use of back-ups and evaluating the impact of these patches in a testing and development environment or on an offline infrastructure. Contact Schneider Electric’s Customer Care Center if assistance is needed for removing a patch.
If users choose not to apply the remediation provided above, they should immediately apply the following mitigations to reduce the risk of exploit:
Schneider Electric strongly recommends the following industry cybersecurity best practices.
For more information refer to the Schneider Electric Recommended Cybersecurity Best Practices document.
For more information, see Schneider Electric security notification “SEVD-2025-014-01 Modicon M580 PLCs, BMENOR2200H and EVLink Pro AC”
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.