CVE-2014-4685 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Siemens SIMATIC WinCC before version 7.3, including its use in PCS7. The flaw stems from weak system-object access control, allowing a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but could lead to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available, and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a high-priority threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs7:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs7:7.1:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_pcs7:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:wincc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:wincc:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.