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CVE-2015-1602 json

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) 12 and 13 before 13 SP1 Upd1 improperly stores password data within project files, which makes it easie…

published 2015-04-06 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1733

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) 12 and 13 before 13 SP1 Upd1 improperly stores password data within project files, which makes it easier for local users to determine cleartext (1) protection-level passwords or (2) web-server passwords by leveraging the ability to read these files.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-15-050-01A updated cvss 1.9

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal Vulnerabilities (Update A)

  • Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) V12 <V12_SP1_Upd5 Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) V13 <V13_SP1_Upd1
    affected: mitigation “Siemens provides Update 1 for SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal) V13 SP1, which fixes the vulnerabilities. The update can be obtained here: https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109311724”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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