PHOENIX CONTACT: Denial-of-Service vulnerabilty in Emalytics, ILC 2050 BI and ILC 2050 BI-L

Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a denial-of-service condition.

Mitigation
Phoenix Contact recommends customers with affected products take the following steps to protect themselves:

• Review and validate the list of users who are authorized and who can authenticate to Emalytics.

• Allow only trained and trusted persons to have physical access to the system, including devices that have connection to the system though the Ethernet port.

Phoenix Contact recommends operating network-capable devices in closed networks or protected with a suitable firewall. For detailed information on our recommendations for measures to protect network-capable devices, please refer to our application note:

Art.-Nr. 107913: AH EN INDUSTRIAL SECURITY 'Measures to protect network-capable devices with Ethernet connection against unauthorized access'

Remedation
This vulnerability will be fixed in the regular firmware release (v.1.4.0) which is expected to be available October 2020.