CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-4686

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2014-07-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-07-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• siemens simatic pcs7 (<= 8.0) • siemens simatic pcs7 7.1 • siemens simatic pcs7 8.0 • siemens wincc (<= 7.2) • siemens wincc 5.0 • siemens wincc 6.0 • siemens wincc 7.0 • siemens wincc 7.1

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