Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-4850 - Unspecified vulnerability in Siemens Simatic S7-400 Firmware and Simatic S7-400H Firmware

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
siemens

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-400 (incl. F) CPU hardware version 4.0 and below (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 (incl. F) CPU hardware version 5.0 (All firmware versions < V5.2), SIMATIC S7-400H CPU hardware version 4.5 and below (All versions). The affected CPUs improperly validate S7 communication packets which could cause a Denial-of-Service condition of the CPU. The CPU will remain in DEFECT mode until manual restart.