# Siemens SINEC OS third-party component vulnerabilities

Published: 2025-08-14 · Severity: elevated · Sectors: infrastructure, government-national
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/1b3aae15-78cd-50bf-946f-3c61b038b2f7/siemens-sinec-os-third-party-component-vulnerabilities

> Multiple Linux kernel and third-party vulnerabilities in Siemens SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM devices allow denial-of-service, information disclosure, and potential code execution.

Siemens has issued an advisory addressing multiple vulnerabilities in third-party components bundled with SINEC OS, which runs on SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM industrial network devices. The vulnerabilities span Linux kernel subsystems including NFS, networking, filesystem, USB, and device drivers. Affected products include RUGGEDCOM RST2428P, SCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 family, and SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 family in versions prior to 3.2. Exploitation could result in denial-of-service conditions, information exposure, memory corruption, arbitrary code execution, data corruption, and unintended privilege escalation depending on the specific vulnerability. The advisory does not indicate active exploitation in the wild, but these are known kernel vulnerabilities affecting industrial control systems in operational environments.

## Mentioned in this report

- Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-47316, CVE-2022-48666, CVE-2022-48827, CVE-2022-48828, CVE-2022-48829, CVE-2022-49034, CVE-2023-52887, CVE-2023-52917, CVE-2024-36484, CVE-2024-36894, CVE-2024-36901, CVE-2024-36938, CVE-2024-36974, CVE-2024-36978, CVE-2024-37078, CVE-2024-38586, CVE-2024-38619, CVE-2024-39468, CVE-2024-39469, CVE-2024-39482, CVE-2024-39484, CVE-2024-39487, CVE-2024-39495, CVE-2024-39499, CVE-2024-39501, CVE-2024-39502, CVE-2024-39503, CVE-2024-39505, CVE-2024-39506, CVE-2024-39509, CVE-2024-40901, CVE-2024-40902, CVE-2024-40904, CVE-2024-40905, CVE-2024-40912, CVE-2024-40916, CVE-2024-40929, CVE-2024-40931, CVE-2024-40932, CVE-2024-9681

Source reporting: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-226-07

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