VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9158

high
Published 2016-12-17 · Modified 2026-06-02
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (All versions), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V6 and below CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V7 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 V6 and earlier CPU family (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 V7 CPU family (All versions). Specially crafted packets sent to port 80/tcp could cause the affected devices to go into defect mode. A cold restart is required to recover the system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_312-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_314-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_315-2_dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_315-2_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_317-_2_dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_317-2_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-300_cpu_319-3_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_412-1-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_412-2-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_412-2_pn-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_414-2-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_414-3-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_414-3_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_416-2-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_416-3-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_416-3_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_416f-2-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_416f-3_pn\/dp-
siemens siemenssimatic_s7-400_cpu_417-4-

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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