CVE-2023-52891 (GCVE-0-2023-52891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-09 12:04 – Updated: 2025-08-27 20:42
VLAI
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC IPC DiagBase (All versions), SIMATIC IPC DiagMonitor (All versions), SIMIT V10 (All versions), SIMIT V11 (All versions < V11.1). Unified Automation .NET based OPC UA Server SDK before 3.2.2 used in Siemens products are affected by a similar vulnerability as documented in CVE-2023-27321 for the OPC Foundation UA .NET Standard implementation. A successful attack may lead to high load situation and memory exhaustion, and may block the server.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-09 13:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1325 - Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic Affected: 0 , < V7.5 (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO Affected: 0 , < V7.5 (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC IPC DiagBase Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC IPC DiagMonitor Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SIMIT V10 Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SIMIT V11 Affected: 0 , < V11.1 (custom)
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siemens simatic_energy_manager_basic Affected: 0 , < V7.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_energy_manager_basic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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siemens simatic_energy_manager_pro Affected: 0 , < V7.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simatic_energy_manager_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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siemens simatic_ipc_diagbase Affected: 0 , ≤ * (custom)
    cpe:2.3:h:siemens:simatic_ipc_diagbase:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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siemens simatic_ipc_diagmonitor Affected: 0 , ≤ * (custom)
    cpe:2.3:h:siemens:simatic_ipc_diagmonitor:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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siemens simit_v10 Affected: 0 , ≤ * (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simit_v10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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siemens simit_v11 Affected: 0 , < V11.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:siemens:simit_v11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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