CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2772

7.8 HIGH Published 2010-07-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-07-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568.

Affected configurations

• siemens simatic wincc 6.2 • siemens simatic wincc 7.0 • siemens simatic pcs 7 6.0 • siemens simatic pcs 7 6.1 • siemens simatic pcs 7 7.0 • siemens simatic pcs 7 7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References