Rtu500 Series Cmu Firmware
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Denial of service in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series CMU firmware allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the IEC 60870-5-104 communication process by flooding the device with General Interrogation (GI) requests at short intervals. The high-load condition triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the last entry of the enhanced message queue, causing a BCI_IEC104 fatal write error, connection interruption, and automatic restart - severing bidirectional telecontrol communication. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the ability to sustain elevated request rates against a reachable IEC 104 endpoint.
NULL pointer dereference in Hitachi Energy RTU500 series CMU Firmware allows an adjacent low-privileged attacker to crash the IEC 60870-5-104 communication process by sending a specially crafted sequence of messages over time, resulting in a Denial of Service on the RTU device. Exploitation is gated behind a non-default configuration - only deployments with bidirectional communication interface (BCI) mode enabled are affected. No public exploit exists and EPSS places exploitation probability at 0.02% (7th percentile), consistent with the specialized OT/ICS context, adjacency requirement, and SSVC confirmation of no known active exploitation.
Denial of service in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series CMU firmware allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the IEC 60870-5-104 communication process by flooding the device with General Interrogation (GI) requests at short intervals. The high-load condition triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the last entry of the enhanced message queue, causing a BCI_IEC104 fatal write error, connection interruption, and automatic restart - severing bidirectional telecontrol communication. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the ability to sustain elevated request rates against a reachable IEC 104 endpoint.
NULL pointer dereference in Hitachi Energy RTU500 series CMU Firmware allows an adjacent low-privileged attacker to crash the IEC 60870-5-104 communication process by sending a specially crafted sequence of messages over time, resulting in a Denial of Service on the RTU device. Exploitation is gated behind a non-default configuration - only deployments with bidirectional communication interface (BCI) mode enabled are affected. No public exploit exists and EPSS places exploitation probability at 0.02% (7th percentile), consistent with the specialized OT/ICS context, adjacency requirement, and SSVC confirmation of no known active exploitation.