{"id":59518,"date":"2025-07-20T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:38:49","slug":"cve-2024-31854-critical-tls-server-certificate-validation-vulnerability-in-sicam-toolbox-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-31854-critical-tls-server-certificate-validation-vulnerability-in-sicam-toolbox-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2024-31854: Critical TLS Server Certificate Validation Vulnerability in SICAM TOOLBOX II<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog post discusses a critical vulnerability identified in SICAM TOOLBOX II, a widely used application in the industrial automation sector. The software version affected by this vulnerability is any version earlier than V07.11. This vulnerability is of particular concern due to its potential to allow an attacker to execute an on-path network (MitM) attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7027-critical-firmware-vulnerability-enabling-arbitrary-memory-writes-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70225\">potentially leading to system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<br \/>\nThis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52187-critical-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-getprojectsidea-create-school-management-system-1-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70224\">vulnerability exposes potentially thousands of industrial systems<\/a> to serious cyber threats, emphasizing the importance of immediate action to secure affected systems. With a CVSS Severity Score of 8.1, immediate attention and mitigation are necessary to prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-7457-macos-authorization-model-exploit-leading-to-potential-mitm-attacks\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"80086\">potential exploitation<\/a> by malicious actors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2024-31854<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.1 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46334-critical-vulnerability-in-git-gui-enables-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70747\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2749868720\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>SICAM TOOLBOX II | All versions < V07.11\n\n<strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-40737-critical-file-path-validation-vulnerability-in-sinec-nms\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"66608\">vulnerability lies in the TLS server&#8217;s certificate validation<\/a> process, where the application does not verify the device&#8217;s certificate common name against an expected value during the establishment of an HTTPS connection. This lack of validation allows an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-42959-unauthenticated-replay-attack-exploiting-hmac-reuse\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"71525\">attacker to exploit<\/a> this flaw by performing a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack, intercepting the traffic between the client and server, and potentially altering it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is a conceptual representation of how a potential attack might take place. This is not an actual exploit code, but a simplified illustration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-21486-severe-memory-corruption-vulnerability-during-dynamic-process-creation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"71524\">process an attacker might follow to exploit this vulnerability<\/a>.<\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2149242862\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">\/\/ Attacker intercepts the client request\nGET \/secure\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nAccept: *\/*\n\/\/ Attacker forwards the request to the server and receives a response\nGET \/secure\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: realserver.example.com\nAccept: *\/*\n\/\/ Attacker alters the response (if desired) and sends it back to the client\nGET \/secure\/endpoint HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nAccept: *\/*\nContent: { &quot;malicious_payload&quot;: &quot;...&quot; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker acts as the middleman in the communication between the client and the server, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49759-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-sql-server-potentially-enabling-privilege-escalation-and-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"79170\">potentially altering the data<\/a> sent in either direction. The client, believing they are communicating with the legitimate server, may unknowingly accept malicious data.<br \/>\nMitigation measures include applying the vendor patch immediately, or using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as a temporary mitigation technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This blog post discusses a critical vulnerability identified in SICAM TOOLBOX II, a widely used application in the industrial automation sector. The software version affected by this vulnerability is any version earlier than V07.11. This vulnerability is of particular concern due to its potential to allow an attacker to execute an on-path network (MitM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72500,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions\/72500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}