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Improper Authentication

CVE-2015-2823

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 2nd Generation before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Advanced before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 1st Generation (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Mobile Panel 277 (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Multi Panels (WinCC TIA Portal), and SIMATIC WinCC 7.x before 7.3 Upd4 allow remote attackers to complete authentication by leveraging knowledge of a password hash without knowledge of the associated password.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published