VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-9945

medium
Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In the Siemens 7KM PAC Switched Ethernet PROFINET expansion module (All versions < V2.1.3), a Denial-of-Service condition could be induced by a specially crafted PROFINET DCP packet sent as a local Ethernet (Layer 2) broadcast. The affected component requires a manual restart via the main device to recover.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: productcert@siemens.com — https://www.siemens.com/cert/pool/cert/siemens_security_advisory_ssa-771218.pdf

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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