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VAR-202405-0204

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-08-27 20:26

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CN 4100 (All versions < V3.0). The affected device contains hard coded password which is used for the privileged system user root and for the boot loader GRUB by default . An attacker who manages to crack the password hash gains root access to the device. Siemens' simatic cn 4100 and SIMATIC CN 4100 A vulnerability exists in the firmware related to the use of hardcoded passwords.Information is obtained, information is tampered with, and service operation is interrupted. (DoS) It may be in a state. Siemens SIMATIC CN 4100 is a communication node of the German company Siemens

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CVE-2024-32741 (GCVE-0-2024-32741)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-14 10:02 – Updated: 2024-08-02 02:20

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CN 4100 (All versions < V3.0). The affected device contains hard coded password which is used for the privileged system user `root` and for the boot loader `GRUB` by default . An attacker who manages to crack the password hash gains root access to the device.

Severity

10 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-05-14 12:45 UTC

CWE

CWE-259 - Use of Hard-coded Password

Assigner

siemens CNA under the icscert root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 100 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Siemens	SIMATIC CN 4100	Affected: 0 , < V3.0 (custom)
siemens	simatic_cn_4100	Affected: 0 , < 3.0 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_cn_4100::::::::

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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