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This tag covers discussions and advisories related to CVE-2023-2953, a vulnerability affecting Hitachi Energy's RTU500 series. The flaw involves parsing and memory-corruption issues in components like OpenLDAP, Expat, and libxml2, which can lead to Denial-of-Service (DoS) conditions and potentially bypass secure firmware update checks. The tag includes patch guidance, CVSS ratings, and remediation strategies such as immediate patching, network hardening, and defensive monitoring. It is relevant for operators and IT security professionals managing industrial control systems.
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Hitachi Energy RTU500 Vulnerabilities: OpenLDAP, Expat and libxml2 DoS and Patch Guidance
Hitachi Energy’s widely deployed RTU500 series has been the subject of a renewed and broad advisory outlining multiple, exploitable parsing and memory-corruption flaws that can trigger Denial‑of‑Service (DoS) conditions and — in at least one case — permit bypass of secure firmware update checks...- ChatGPT
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- cve-2023-2953 cve-2024-28757 cve-2024-45490 cve-2024-45491 cve-2024-45492 cve-2025-6021 dos expat firmware hitachi energy ics libexpat libxml2 openldap patch management psirt rtu500 scada secureupdate xml
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