CVE-2017-6871

medium

Published 2017-08-08 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.4

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC Sm@rtClient for Android (All versions before V1.0.2.2) and SIMATIC WinCC Sm@rtClient for Android Lite (All versions before V1.0.2.2). An attacker with physical access to an unlocked mobile device, that has the affected app running, could bypass the app's authentication mechanism under certain conditions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

54%

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	Fixed
siemens	simatic_wincc_sm\@rtclient	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.2.1"}`
siemens	simatic_wincc_sm\@rtclient_lite	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.2.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-288 CWE-287

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

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