CISA warns of flaws in ANDRITZ HIPASE-250
Four vulnerabilities in ANDRITZ HIPASE-250/250 SCALA ICS software could let attackers steal credentials, read live process data, hide log activity, or gain VNC access via a hard-coded password.
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CISA published an advisory detailing four vulnerabilities affecting ANDRITZ HIPASE-250 and 250 SCALA, an industrial control system product used in the energy sector worldwide, with ANDRITZ headquartered in Austria. The flaws range from reversible password storage (CVE-2026-65309) and unauthenticated exposure of process/configuration data with permissive CORS (CVE-2026-65310), to an unauthenticated endpoint that can suppress audit logging to conceal attacker activity (CVE-2026-65311), and a hard-coded x11vnc password applied uniformly to engineering workstations during provisioning (CVE-2026-65313).
Combined, these issues could allow an attacker with network access to recover stored credentials, read live process and server configuration data without authentication, tamper with logging to hide malicious activity, and ultimately gain VNC access to affected workstations. The vulnerabilities were reported to CISA by researchers from NTCS OT Penetration Testing Team. ANDRITZ has released fixes in versions V8.00.00 (Dec 2024) and V8.15.00 (Jul 2026), and CISA recommends standard ICS network isolation and VPN best practices as mitigations. No known public exploitation has been reported at this time.
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Source reporting: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-225-05
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