SB2020021207 - Denial of service in Siemens SIMATIC S7
Published: February 12, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020021207
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13940)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to Ports 80/TCP and 443/TCP, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack on the web server.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.