CVE-2014-4685

medium

Published 2014-07-24 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

Siemens SIMATIC WinCC before 7.3, as used in PCS7 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging weak system-object access control.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
siemens	simatic_pcs7	`{"endIncluding":"8.0"}`
siemens	simatic_pcs7	`7.1`
siemens	simatic_pcs7	`8.0`
siemens	wincc	`{"endIncluding":"7.2"}`
siemens	wincc	`5.0`
siemens	wincc	`6.0`
siemens	wincc	`7.0`
siemens	wincc	`7.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.