Critical Infrastructure exploitable vulnerability will not be patched

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/51019-critical-infrastructure-exploitable-vulnerability-will-not-be-patched

By David Heath
iTWire
09 November 2011

In April this year, a vulnerability was discovered in a commonly used 
critical infrastructure Web Access product.  Exploitable code was also 
made available. The manufacturer has announced that no patch will be 
released.

According to ISC-CERT, advisory ICSA-11-094-02A spells out the 
following:

“Independent security researcher Rubén Santamarta has identified details 
and released exploit code for a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) 
vulnerability in Advantech/BroadWin WebAccess. This is a web 
browser-based human-machine interface (HMI) product. This RPC 
vulnerability affects the WebAccess Network Service on 4592/TCP and 
allows remote code execution.

“Advantech/BroadWin has notified ICS-CERT that a patch will not be 
issued to address this vulnerability.”

Allow me to repeat that.  A simple RPC exploit in software that is used 
for a variety of critical infrastructure projects WILL NOT BE PATCHED.

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