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CVE-2019-7228

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

The ABB IDAL HTTP server mishandles format strings in a username or cookie during the authentication process. Attempting to authenticate with the username %25s%25p%25x%25n will crash the server. Sending %08x.AAAA.%08x.%08x will log memory content from the stack.

Affected products

• ABB Pb610 Panel Builder 600 Firmware: from 1.91 through 2.8.0.367

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153404/ABB-IDAL-HTTP-Server-Uncontrolled-Format-String.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/43
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108886
• https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=3ADR010377&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
• https://www.darkmatter.ae/xen1thlabs/abb-idal-http-server-uncontrolled-format-string-vulnerability-xl-19-012/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153404/ABB-IDAL-HTTP-Server-Uncontrolled-Format-String.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/43
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108886
• https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=3ADR010377&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
• https://www.darkmatter.ae/xen1thlabs/abb-idal-http-server-uncontrolled-format-string-vulnerability-xl-19-012/

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