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VAR-202505-1596

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-08-07 21:00

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions < V4.0 HF0). Affected devices are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. This could allow a privileged local attacker to restore backups that are outside the backup folder. The Siemens SCALANCE LPE9403 is a local processing engine designed by Siemens for industrial field data processing. It is used to capture, collect, and pre-process industrial field data

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CVE-2025-40573 (GCVE-0-2025-40573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 09:38 – Updated: 2025-07-08 10:34

Summary

Severity

4.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

6.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-13 18:43 UTC

CWE

CWE-35 - Path Traversal: '.../...//'

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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Siemens	SCALANCE LPE9403	Affected: 0 , < V4.0 HF0 (custom)

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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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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

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