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FKIE_CVE-2014-4686

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-07-24 14:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:10

Severity

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-214365.pdf	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-214365.pdf	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
siemens	simatic_pcs7	*
siemens	simatic_pcs7	7.1
siemens	simatic_pcs7	8.0
siemens	wincc	*
siemens	wincc	5.0
siemens	wincc	5.0
siemens	wincc	6.0
siemens	wincc	6.0
siemens	wincc	6.0
siemens	wincc	6.0
siemens	wincc	7.0
siemens	wincc	7.0
siemens	wincc	7.0
siemens	wincc	7.0
siemens	wincc	7.1
siemens	wincc	7.1

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CVE-2014-4686 (GCVE-0-2014-4686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:27

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschu…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2014-07-23 00:00

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