The Emerson DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS) through 2022-04-29 mishandles authentication. It utilizes several proprietary protocols for a wide variety of functionality. These protocols include Firmware upgrade (18508/TCP, 18518/TCP); Plug-and-Play (18510/UDP); Hawk services (18507/UDP); Management (18519/TCP); Cold restart (18512/UDP); SIS communications (12345/TCP); and Wireless Gateway Protocol (18515/UDP). None of these protocols have any authentication features, allowing any attacker capable of communicating with the ports in question to invoke (a subset of) desired functionality.
The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
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https://www.forescout.com/blog/ | third party advisory |
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-181-03 | third party advisory us government resource |