EDS-405A Series Ethernet Switches Vulnerabilities

Published: November 7, 2019

This Alert Is From MOXA

As Industrial IoT (IIoT) adoption continues to proliferate, cybersecurity has become one of the top priorities. The Moxa Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) takes a proactive approach to protect products from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Moxa PSIRT investigates all reports of vulnerabilities that could potentially affect Moxa products. Moxa created a vulnerability management policy to provide guidance and information to our customers in the event of a reported vulnerability. The management policy ensures that Moxa’s customers have steady, unambiguous resources to help them understand how Moxa resolves or mitigates reported vulnerabilities. For any queries, please email [email protected].
Multiple product vulnerabilities were identified in Moxa’s EDS-405A Series Ethernet Switches. In response to this, Moxa has developed related solutions to address these vulnerabilities.
 
The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:
Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1 Denial of Service (web service) by improper HTTP GET command To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker may cause the targeted device to go out of service. This can cause authorized users to be unable to access the device. The vulnerability occurs because the packet payload size was not checked.
2 Denial of Service (web service) by excessive length of HTTP GET command To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker may cause the targeted device to go out of service. This can cause authorized users to be unable to access the device. The vulnerability occurs because the packet payload size was not checked.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/eds-405a-series-ethernet-switches-vulnerabilities