Inside industrial systems (also known as Operational Technology, or OT), devices communicate with each other and can be accessed over IP using familiar IT protocols (such as SSH, web services, etc.), as well as with a variety of industrial network protocols. Among them, you may have heard of Modbus, maybe S7comm, OPC-UA and a few others, but do you know all the industrial protocols you could find on industrial networks?…
Last year I wrote how to weaponize CVE-2018-19204. This blog post will continue and elaborate on the finding and analysis of two additional vulnerabilities that were discovered during the process; one leading to an arbitrary write as system where the contents can’t be fully controlled and the other leading to Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM. Both vulnerabilities require you to have the administrator password for PRTG Network Monitor. Often you…