CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-10048

Improper Authentication

Published: Feb 09, 2021 | Modified: Feb 11, 2021
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

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

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