CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-10048

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Published: Feb 09, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS 7 (All versions), SIMATIC WinCC (All versions < V7.5 SP2). Due to an insecure password verification process, an attacker could bypass the password protection set on protected files, thus being granted access to the protected content, circumventing authentication.

Weakness

A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Simatic_pcs_7 Siemens * *
Simatic_wincc Siemens * 7.5 (excluding)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 7.5-sp1 (including) 7.5-sp1 (including)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 7.5-sp1_update1 (including) 7.5-sp1_update1 (including)
Simatic_wincc Siemens 7.5-sp1_update2 (including) 7.5-sp1_update2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References