A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC IPC DiagBase (All versions), SIMATIC IPC DiagMonitor (All versions), SIMIT V10 (All versions), SIMIT V11 (All versions < V11.1). Unified Automation .NET based OPC UA Server SDK before 3.2.2 used in Siemens products are affected by a similar vulnerability as documented in CVE-2023-27321 for the OPC Foundation UA .NET Standard implementation. A successful attack may lead to high load situation and memory exhaustion, and may block the server.
The product manages a group of objects or resources and performs a separate memory allocation for each object, but it does not properly limit the total amount of memory that is consumed by all of the combined objects.
While the product might limit the amount of memory that is allocated in a single operation for a single object (such as a malloc of an array), if an attacker can cause multiple objects to be allocated in separate operations, then this might cause higher total memory consumption than the developer intended, leading to a denial of service.