A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Hitachi Energy RTU500 up to 13.5.3. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component STB Language File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability exists in the stb-language file handling that affects the RTU500 series product versions listed below. A malicious actor could print random memory content in the RTU500 system log, if an authorized user uploads a specially crafted stb-language file.

The advisory is shared for download at publisher.hitachienergy.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-1531 since 02/15/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1608.002.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entry is available at VDB-258135.

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Vendor

• Hitachi Energy

Name

• RTU500

Version

• 12.0.0
• 12.0.1
• 12.0.2
• 12.0.3
• 12.0.4
• 12.0.5
• 12.0.6
• 12.0.7
• 12.0.8
• 12.0.9
• 12.0.10
• 12.0.11
• 12.0.12
• 12.0.13
• 12.0.14
• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1
• 12.2.2
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.2.8
• 12.2.9
• 12.2.10
• 12.2.11
• 12.4.0
• 12.4.1
• 12.4.2
• 12.4.3
• 12.4.4
• 12.4.5
• 12.4.6
• 12.4.7
• 12.4.8
• 12.4.9
• 12.4.10
• 12.4.11
• 12.6.0
• 12.6.1
• 12.6.2
• 12.6.3
• 12.6.4
• 12.6.5
• 12.6.6
• 12.6.7
• 12.6.8
• 12.6.9
• 12.7.0
• 12.7.1
• 12.7.2
• 12.7.3
• 12.7.4
• 12.7.5
• 12.7.6
• 13.2.0
• 13.2.1
• 13.2.2
• 13.2.3
• 13.2.4
• 13.2.5
• 13.2.6
• 13.4.0
• 13.4.1
• 13.4.2
• 13.4.3
• 13.4.4
• 13.5.0
• 13.5.1
• 13.5.2
• 13.5.3

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• commercial

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