Pepperl+Fuchs ICE2 — vulnerability CVE-2022-40735

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows use of long exponents that arguably make certain calculations unnecessarily expensive, because the 1996 van Oorschot and Wiener paper found that "(appropriately) short exponents" can be used when there are adequate subgroup constraints, and these short exponents can lead to less expensive calculations than for long exponents. This issue is different from CVE-2002-20001 because it is based on an observation about exponent size, rather than an observation about numbers that are not public keys. The specific situations in which calculation expense would constitute a server-side vulnerability depend on the protocol (e.g., TLS, SSH, or IKE) and the DHE implementation details. In general, there might be an availability concern because of server-side resource consumption from DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. Finally, it is possible for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and CVE-2002-20001 together.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

External protective measures are required: Disable the webserver after configuration, if possible, by following these steps: - Enable SSH via the web server. - Login to the SSH server. - Disable the webserver via SSH portal. - Reboot the device. or: - Use HTTPS rather than HTTP while using the webserver. - Minimize network exposure for affected products and ensure that they are not accessible via the Internet. - Isolate affected products from the corporate network. - If remote access is required, use secure methods such as virtual private networks(VPNs). Pepperl+Fuchs will provide an update to address some of these vulnerabilities in the future.