CVE-2014-4686
Description
The Project administration application in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC before 7.3, as used in PCS7 and other products, has a hardcoded encryption key, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by extracting this key from another product installation and then employing this key during the sniffing of network traffic on TCP port 1030.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| siemens | simatic_pcs7 | {"endIncluding":"8.0"} | |
| siemens | simatic_pcs7 | 7.1 | |
| siemens | simatic_pcs7 | 8.0 | |
| siemens | wincc | {"endIncluding":"7.2"} | |
| siemens | wincc | 5.0 | |
| siemens | wincc | 6.0 | |
| siemens | wincc | 7.0 | |
| siemens | wincc | 7.1 | |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.