9 Alarming Vulnerabilities Uncovered in SEL's Power Management Products
Sep 06, 2023
Vulnerability / ICS
Nine security flaws have been disclosed in electric power management products made by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). "The most severe of those nine vulnerabilities would allow a threat actor to facilitate remote code execution (RCE) on an engineering workstation," Nozomi Networks said in a report published last week. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-34392 and from CVE-2023-31168 through CVE-2023-31175, have CVSS severity scores ranging from 4.8 to 8.8 and impact SEL-5030 acSELeratorQuickSet and SEL-5037 GridConfigurator, which are used to commission, configure, and monitor the devices. Exploitation of CVE-2023-31171 could be achieved by sending a phishing email that tricks a victim engineer into importing a specially crafted configuration file to achieve arbitrary code execution on the engineering workstation running the SEL software. What's more, the shortcoming can be chained with CVE-2023-31175 to obtain administrative privileges on the target workstation...
