CVE-2014-8478 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Siemens SCALANCE X-300 and X 408 switches with firmware versions prior to 4.0. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending malformed HTTP requests to the device's web server, causing it to reboot. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code for Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB is unavailable. Despite limited community discussion, the vulnerability received media coverage from SecurityWeek.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:scalance_x-300_series_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:siemens:scalance_x-408_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.