Serious Flaws Found in Phoenix Contact Industrial Switches

  • 15 January 2018
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By Eduard Kovacs on January 15, 2018
 
Vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact Industrial Switches Can Allow Hackers to Disrupt Operations
 
Researchers have discovered potentially serious vulnerabilities in industrial switches made by Phoenix Contact, a Germany-based company that specializes in industrial automation, connectivity and interface solutions.
 
According to advisories published last week by ICS-CERT and its German counterpart CERT@VDE, Phoenix Contact’s FL SWITCH industrial ethernet switches are affected by authentication bypass and information exposure flaws. Ilya Karpov and Evgeniy Druzhinin of Positive Technologies have been credited for reporting the flaws.
 
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