CVE-2021-40360 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 and WinCC products, where an authenticated attacker can obtain and brute-force local user password hashes from a remote server via a public API. This could lead to unauthorized login and full compromise of the server, as reflected by its CVSS score of 8.8. While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding it.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs_7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs_7:9.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs_7:9.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_wincc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_wincc:7.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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