{"id":163326,"date":"2023-05-04T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cisa-issues-advisory-on-critical-rce-affecting-me-rtu-remote-terminal-units"},"modified":"2023-05-04T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:25:04","slug":"cisa-issues-advisory-on-critical-rce-affecting-me-rtu-remote-terminal-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cisa-issues-advisory-on-critical-rce-affecting-me-rtu-remote-terminal-units","title":{"rendered":"CISA Issues Advisory on Critical RCE Affecting ME RTU Remote Terminal Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisa-issues-advisory-on-critical-rce-affecting-me-rtu-remote-terminal-units.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/alerts\/2023\/05\/02\/cisa-releases-one-industrial-control-systems-advisory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory about a critical flaw affecting ME RTU remote terminal units.<\/p>\n<p>The security vulnerability, tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-2131\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2023\u20132131<\/a>, has received the highest severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system for its low attack complexity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote code execution,\u201d CISA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/ics-advisories\/icsa-23-110-01\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, describing it as a case of command injection affecting versions of INEA ME RTU firmware prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inea.si\/en\/telemetrija-in-m2m-produkti\/mertu-en\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 3.36<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory about a critical flaw affecting ME RTU remote terminal units. The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023\u20132131, has received the highest severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system for its low attack complexity. \u201cSuccessful exploitation of this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}