Riskcovery

CVE-2025-40584

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Aug 12, 2025
Updated
Oct 14, 2025
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.5 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.6 (All versions < V5.6 SP1 HF7), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 SP1 HF1), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.4 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.5 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.6 (All versions < V5.6 SP1 HF7), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 SP1 HF1), SINAMICS STARTER V5.5 (All versions), SINAMICS STARTER V5.6 (All versions), SINAMICS STARTER V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 HF2). The affected application contains a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability while parsing specially crafted XML files. This could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files in the system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nsiemens
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsiemens

Weaknesses

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

ProductVersions
SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.5Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.6Siemens
  • before V5.6 SP1 HF7Affected
SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.7Siemens
  • before V5.7 SP1 HF1Affected
SIMOTION SCOUT V5.4Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SIMOTION SCOUT V5.5Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SIMOTION SCOUT V5.6Siemens
  • before V5.6 SP1 HF7Affected
SIMOTION SCOUT V5.7Siemens
  • before V5.7 SP1 HF1Affected
SINAMICS STARTER V5.5Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SINAMICS STARTER V5.6Siemens
  • all versionsAffected
SINAMICS STARTER V5.7Siemens
  • before V5.7 HF2Affected

References

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