CVE-2015-2823
Description
Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 2nd Generation before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Advanced before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 1st Generation (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Mobile Panel 277 (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Multi Panels (WinCC TIA Portal), and SIMATIC WinCC 7.x before 7.3 Upd4 allow remote attackers to complete authentication by leveraging knowledge of a password hash without knowledge of the associated password.
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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74040
- http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-487246.pdf
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-487246.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74040
- http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-487246.pdf
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-487246.pdf
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.