# Siemens SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM authorization flaws

Published: 2025-06-12 · Severity: routine · Sectors: manufacturing, infrastructure
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/e4653d69-6bf3-5126-9f02-7f2ae4e8d3ba/siemens-scalance-and-ruggedcom-authorization-flaws

> Three authorization and race-condition vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial network switches allow authenticated guests to bypass checks and manipulate configurations.

Siemens has disclosed three vulnerabilities affecting 40+ variants of SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM industrial network switches used in critical manufacturing environments worldwide. The vulnerabilities stem from incorrect authorization checks in the web management interface and allow an authenticated attacker with guest-level privileges to exceed their permissions in three ways: rolling back configuration changes made by administrators (CVE-2025-40567, CVSS 7.1), terminating other users' sessions (CVE-2025-40568, CVSS 5.3), and—via a race condition—loading attacker-controlled configurations during a legitimate administration operation (CVE-2025-40569, CVSS 5.9). All vulnerabilities require network access to the management interface and prior authentication as a guest user, lowering attack complexity. The flaws affect all product versions prior to V3.2. No active exploitation has been reported to CISA as of the June 2025 advisory date.

Defenders with SCALANCE or RUGGEDCOM switches in production should prioritize updating to V3.2 or later across all affected models. In environments where immediate patching is not feasible, Siemens and CISA recommend restricting network access to the management interfaces via firewall rules, VPN-only administration, and segmentation of control-system networks from business networks. Guest account creation and use should be minimized or eliminated where possible.

## Mentioned in this report

- Vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40567, CVE-2025-40568, CVE-2025-40569

Source reporting: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-162-04

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