ICSA-18-317-05

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Siemens SIMATIC S7 (Update A)

view advisory published 2018-11-13

As a general security measure, Siemens strongly recommends to protect network access to devices with appropriate mechanisms. In order to operate the devices in a protected IT environment, Siemens recommends to configure the environment according to Siemens' operational guidelines for Industrial Security (Download: https://www.siemens.com/cert/operational-guidelines-industrial-security), and to follow the recommendations in the product manuals.

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Related CVEs.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2018-13815UShigh7.5—
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-1200 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-1500 (All Versions < V2.6). An attacker could exhaust the available connection pool of an affected…
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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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remediations (4)

  • MitigationSIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants)

    Apply cell-protection concept

  • MitigationSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants)

    Apply cell-protection concept

  • FixedSIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants)

    Update to V4.3 https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/us/en/view/109763919

  • FixedSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants)

    Update to V2.6 https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/de/en/view/109478459

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