Siemens Discloses Local Privilege Escalation Bug in SCADA Gear

German engineering giant Siemens is warning operators of a local privilege escalation vulnerability that leaves more than a dozen models of its SCADA equipment open to attack. Some of the issues have been patched, or in other cases, Siemens has provided a workaround. The vulnerability was disclos...

CVE-2016-5874: Improper Input Validation

Siemens SIMATIC NET PC-Software before 13 SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service OPC UA service outage via crafted TCP packets...

Siemens SIMATIC NET PC-Software Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Siemens has identified a denial-of-service vulnerability in SIMATIC NET PC-Software. Vladimir Dashchenko and Sergey Temnikov from Kaspersky Labs reported this issue directly to Siemens. Siemens has produced a new version to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploit...