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Vulnerability CVE-2021-40363
Published: 2022-02-09
Description: |
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.2 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP1), SIMATIC WinCC V15 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC V16 (All versions < V16 Update 5), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions < V17 Update 2), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions >= V17 Update 2), SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 (All versions < V7.5 SP2 Update 6). The affected component stores the credentials of a local system account in a potentially publicly accessible project file using an outdated cipher algorithm. An attacker may use this to brute force the credentials and take over the system. |
Type:
CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information)
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
2.1/10 |
2.9/10 |
3.9/10 |
Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Low |
No required |
Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
None |
None |
References: |
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-914168.pdf
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