SSA-864900

Siemens Security Advisory by Siemens ProductCERT

SSA-864900: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortigate NGFW on RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices

Publication Date:	2025-05-13
Last Update:	2025-05-13
Current Version:	V1.0
CVSS v3.1 Base Score:	3.7

SUMMARY

Fortinet has published information on vulnerabilities in FortiOS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products.

Siemens is preparing fix versions and recommends to consult and implement the workarounds provided in Fortinet's upstream security notifications.

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND SOLUTION

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Affected Product and Versions	Remediation
RUGGEDCOM APE1808 All versions with Fortinet NGFW affected by all CVEs CVE-2024-32122 CVE-2024-52963	Contact customer support to receive patch and update information. See further recommendations from section Workarounds and Mitigations

WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS

Siemens has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations that customers can apply to reduce the risk:

CVE-2024-52963: Under the config vpn ipsec phase1-interface configuration, either set authmethod to psk, or set digital-signature-auth to disable (see https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-373)

Product-specific remediations or mitigations can be found in the section Affected Products and Solution.
Please follow the General Security Recommendations.

GENERAL SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS

As a general security measure, Siemens strongly recommends to protect network access to devices with appropriate mechanisms. In order to operate the devices in a protected IT environment, Siemens recommends to configure the environment according to Siemens' operational guidelines for Industrial Security (Download: https://www.siemens.com/cert/operational-guidelines-industrial-security), and to follow the recommendations in the product manuals. Additional information on Industrial Security by Siemens can be found at: https://www.siemens.com/industrialsecurity

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

RUGGEDCOM APE1808 is a powerful utility-grade application hosting platform that lets you deploy a range of commercially available applications for edge computing and cybersecurity in harsh, industrial environments.

VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

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This chapter describes all vulnerabilities (CVE-IDs) addressed in this security advisory. Wherever applicable, it also documents the product-specific impact of the individual vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability CVE-2024-32122

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability in FortiOS may allow a privileged authenticated attacker to retrieve LDAP credentials via modifying the LDAP server IP address in the FortiOS configuration to point to a malicious attacker-controlled server.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	2.3
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE	CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Vulnerability CVE-2024-52963

A out-of-bounds write in Fortinet FortiOS versions 7.6.0, 7.4.0 through 7.4.6, 7.2.0 through 7.2.10, 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, 6.4.0 through 6.4.15 allows attacker to trigger a denial of service via specially crafted packets.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	3.7
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:F/RL:W/RC:C
CWE	CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Siemens recommends to consult and implement the workarounds provided in Fortinet's upstream security notifications. Fortinet provides a public RSS feed for their security alerts to which customers can also subscribe [1].

[1] https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/rss/ir.xml

For further inquiries on security vulnerabilities in Siemens products and solutions, please contact the Siemens ProductCERT: https://www.siemens.com/cert/advisories

HISTORY DATA

V1.0 (2025-05-13):

Publication Date

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