CVE-2015-1602

low

Published 2015-04-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) 12 and 13 before 13 SP1 Upd1 improperly stores password data within project files, which makes it easier for local users to determine cleartext (1) protection-level passwords or (2) web-server passwords by leveraging the ability to read these files.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
siemens	simatic_step_7	`{"endIncluding":"13.0"}`
siemens	simatic_step_7	`12.0`
siemens	simatic_step_7	`13.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.