Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.01 (combinedStats.php) Information Disclosure
Advisory ID: ZSL-2024-5872
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: Security Bypass, Exposure of System Information, Exposure of Sensitive Information
Risk: (4/5)
Release Date: 08.12.2024

Summary

ASPECT is an award-winning scalable building energy management and control solution designed to allow users seamless access to their building data through standard building protocols including smart devices.

Description

The ABB BMS/BAS controller suffers from an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability. An unauthorized attacker can access the affected page and retrieve sensitive system details, including active threads, mapping of reference paths, port pool configurations, internal IP addresses, serial port queue information, and performance metrics such as transaction times.

Vendor

ABB Ltd. - https://www.global.abb

Affected Version

NEXUS Series, MATRIX-2 Series, ASPECT-Enterprise, ASPECT-Studio
Firmware: <=3.08.01

Tested On

GNU/Linux 3.15.10 (armv7l)
GNU/Linux 3.10.0 (x86_64)
GNU/Linux 2.6.32 (x86_64)
Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor E3930 @ 1.30GHz
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz
PHP/7.3.11
PHP/5.6.30
PHP/5.4.16
PHP/4.4.8
PHP/5.3.3
AspectFT Automation Application Server
lighttpd/1.4.32
lighttpd/1.4.18
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.22.1.-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.261-b02, mixed mode)

Vendor Status

[21.04.2024] Vulnerability discovered.
[22.04.2024] Vendor contacted.
[22.04.2024] Vendor responds.
[02.05.2024] Working with the vendor.
[07.08.2024] Vendor released version 3.08.02 to address this issue.
[08.12.2024] Coordinated public security advisory released.

PoC

abb_aspect_info4.txt

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>

References

[1] https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108469A7497&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
[2] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-51543
[3] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51543
[4] https://packetstorm.news/files/id/183038/

Changelog

[08.12.2024] - Initial release
[09.12.2024] - Added reference [4]

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: https://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: lab@zeroscience.mk