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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2015-1356

Medium
4.4/10

Summary

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) before 13 SP1 determines a user's privileges on the basis of project-file fields that lack integrity protection, which allows remote attackers to establish arbitrary authorization data via a modified file.

  • MEDIUM
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

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  • Published