Schneider electric products multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in multiple Schneider Electric products, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose potentially sensitive information, and compromise a user’s system, according to Secunia.

1. Two errors in the TeeChart ActiveX control can be exploited to cause buffer overflows. No further information is currently available.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2. Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.

3. Certain unspecified input passed to the web portal is not properly verified before being used to read files and can be exploited to disclose arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:

• Vijeo Historian version 4.30 and prior.
• CitectHistorian version 4.30 and prior.
• CitectSCADA Reports version 4.10 and prior.

Solution: Apply patches.