CVE-2021-40363

First published: Wed Feb 09 2022(Updated: )

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.2 (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 < V15 SP1 Update 7), SIMATIC WinCC V16 (All versions < V16 Update 5), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions < V17 Update 2), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions <= V17 Update 4), SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 (All versions < V7.4 SP1 Update 19), 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component stores the credentials of a local system account in a potentially publicly accessible project file using an outdated cipher algorithm.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.

Credit: productcert@siemens.com

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• agent/severity
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• agent/weakness
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• vendor/siemens
• canonical/siemens simatic pcs 7
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• version/siemens simatic pcs 7/9.0
• version/siemens simatic pcs 7/9.1
• canonical/siemens simatic wincc
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• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.4-sp1_update1
• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.4-sp1_update10
• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.4-sp1_update11
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• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.4-sp1_update14
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• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.5-sp2
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• version/siemens simatic wincc/7.5-sp2_update3
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• version/siemens simatic wincc/15.1-update_2
• version/siemens simatic wincc/15.1-update_3
• version/siemens simatic wincc/15.1-update_4
• version/siemens simatic wincc/15.1-update_5
• version/siemens simatic wincc/15.1-update_6
• version/siemens simatic wincc/16
• version/siemens simatic wincc/16-update1
• version/siemens simatic wincc/16-update2
• version/siemens simatic wincc/16-update3
• version/siemens simatic wincc/16-update4
• version/siemens simatic wincc/17
• version/siemens simatic wincc/17-update1