CVE-2022-30320

MEDIUM

Saia PG5 Controls Suite - Authentication Bypass via S-Bus Weak CRC-16 Credential Hashing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Saia Burgess Controls (SBC) PCD through 2022-05-06 uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. According to FSCT-2022-0063, there is a Saia Burgess Controls (SBC) PCD S-Bus weak credential hashing scheme issue. The affected components are characterized as: S-Bus (5050/UDP) authentication. The potential impact is: Authentication bypass. The Saia Burgess Controls (SBC) PCD controllers utilize the S-Bus protocol (5050/UDP) for a variety of engineering purposes. It is possible to configure a password in order to restrict access to sensitive engineering functionality. Authentication is done by using the S-Bus 'write byte' message to a specific address and supplying a hashed version of the password. The hashing algorithm used is based on CRC-16 and as such not cryptographically secure. An insecure hashing algorithm is used. An attacker capable of passively observing traffic can intercept the hashed credentials and trivially find collisions allowing for authentication without having to bruteforce a keyspace defined by the actual strength of the password. This allows the attacker access to sensitive engineering functionality such as uploading/downloading control logic and manipulating controller configuration.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.forescout.com/blog/
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-207-03

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.5%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-327
Status published
Products (1)
honeywell/saia_pg5_controls_suite
Published Jul 28, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026