Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family multiple vulnerabilities
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Siemens S7-1500 industrial controllers vulnerable to remote exploitation via OpenSSH, glibc, OpenSSL and curl flaws in bundled libraries.
CISA has published an advisory covering multiple vulnerabilities affecting the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (models 1518-4 and 1518F-4, firmware V3.1.5 and later). The vulnerabilities are not in the Siemens code itself but in underlying system libraries bundled with the device: OpenSSH, glibc, OpenSSL, curl, libtasn1, GnuTLS, Linux kernel, MIT Kerberos, libexpat, GLib and other open-source components. Individual CVEs range from remote code execution and privilege escalation to denial-of-service and information disclosure, with CVSS v3 scores between 4.0 and 9.8. The advisory lists 43 distinct CVEs affecting these bundled libraries. Defenders operating S7-1500 controllers should treat this as a consolidated patch advisory and contact Siemens for available firmware updates addressing the affected components.
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Source reporting: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-162-05
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