ICS Alert

Intellicom NetBiter WebSCADA Vulnerabilities

Last Revised
Alert Code
ICS-ALERT-10-293-01

Description

This October 2010 alert reports multiple vulnerabilities in the Intellicom NetBiter® WebSCADA product.

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SUMMARY

Russian firm ITDefense has reported multiple vulnerabilities in the Intellicom NetBiter® WebSCADA product.

According to IntelliCom, their NetBiter® products have been deployed in over 40 countries. The markets for NetBiter® solutions include industrial automation, power generation, energy management, building automation, and asset management.

The three issues identified by ITDefense all appear to be related to a directory traversal vulnerability that can be exploited through the WebSCADA embedded web server. If a user has been authenticated with “superadmin” privileges, (highest authentication level) they have permission to read system files by calling read.cgi with options to read a system file.

ICS-CERT is working with Intellicom to address these vulnerabilities. As an interim mitigation, Intellicom recommends customers change the default password when installing the product. In addition, they strongly advise customers to provide only the necessary privileges to non-administrator users of the product.

ICS-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.

Please report any issues affecting control systems in critical infrastructure environments to ICS-CERT.

Other resources:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Oct/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/41671/

FOLLOW-UP

ICS-CERT released the follow-up advisory, ICSA-10-316-01 - Intellicom NetBiter Vulnerabilities, on the ICS-CERT Web site on December 27, 2010.

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Vendor

Intellicom