
Schneider Electric is a manufacturer and integrator of energy management and industrial automation systems, equipment, and software. Schneider Electric is a France-based multinational corporation. NCCIC/ICS-CERT recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of this vulnerability based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Impact to individual organizations depends on many factors that are unique to each organization. The software would need to be restarted to recover from a successful denial-of-service attack.


Researcher Carsten Eiram of Risk Based Security has identified an exception handling vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s CitectSCADA application. Schneider Electric requested the title change to reduce confusion. This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on December 16, 2013.

This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-13-350-01 Schneider Electric SCADA Products Exception Handler Vulnerability that was published February 25, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site.
