CVE-2015-2823

medium
Published 2015-04-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Siemens SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 2nd Generation before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Comfort Panels before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Advanced before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional before WinCC (TIA Portal) 13 SP1 Upd2, SIMATIC HMI Basic Panels 1st Generation (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Mobile Panel 277 (WinCC TIA Portal), SIMATIC HMI Multi Panels (WinCC TIA Portal), and SIMATIC WinCC 7.x before 7.3 Upd4 allow remote attackers to complete authentication by leveraging knowledge of a password hash without knowledge of the associated password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.siemens.com/innovation/pool/de/forschungsfelder/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-487246.pdf

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
siemens siemenswincc7.0
siemens siemenswincc7.1
siemens siemenswincc7.2
siemens siemenswincc7.3
siemens siemenswincc{"endIncluding":"13.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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