ICSA-26-239-04

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Applied Systems Engineering ASE2000 V2 Communications Test Set

view advisory published 2026-08-27

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to read or write arbitrary local files, cause the application to issue outbound network requests, or intercept the connection to impersonate the trusted peer, complete the TLS handshake, and read or modify the protected communications.

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describes (2)

Related CVEs.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-18717US——
ASE2000 2.35 through 2.37 is vulnerable to an improper certificate validation vulnerability, which may allow an attacker to impersonate the trusted peer, complete the TLS handshake…
CVE-2018-1285UScritical9.8Exploit
Apache log4net versions before 2.0.10 do not disable XML external entities when parsing log4net configuration files. This allows for XXE-based attacks in applications that accept a…
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references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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remediations (4)

  • MitigationASE2000

    ASE/Kalkitech provides an upgraded version 2.38 that fixes both vulnerabilities and customers are advised to upgrade to version 2.38. In version 2.38 the bundled log4net library is upgraded to version 3.3.1.0, and the IEC 60870-5-104 TLS client certificate validation logic is corrected to ensure proper validation of certificate error conditions.

  • MitigationASE2000

    ASE/Kalkitech provides an upgraded version 2.38 that fixes both vulnerabilities and customers are advised to upgrade to version 2.38. In version 2.38 the bundled log4net library is upgraded to version 3.3.1.0, and the IEC 60870-5-104 TLS client certificate validation logic is corrected to ensure proper validation of certificate error conditions.

  • FixedASE2000

    Avoid using IEC 60870-5-104 over TLS across untrusted or shared networks; place ASE2000 hosts on an isolated, segmented network reachable only by intended peers.

  • FixedASE2000

    Avoid using IEC 60870-5-104 over TLS across untrusted or shared networks; place ASE2000 hosts on an isolated, segmented network reachable only by intended peers.

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