CVE-2016-5743 is a critical vulnerability affecting multiple Siemens SIMATIC products, including WinCC, BATCH, OpenPCS 7, and WinCC Runtime Professional. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted packets to vulnerable systems. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_batch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_wincc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_wincc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_openpcs_7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_openpcs_7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.