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critical 9.1

CVE-2018-13799 json

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 and prior (All versions < V3.14-P021).

published 2018-09-12 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-5735

cvss
9.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 and prior (All versions < V3.14-P021). Improper access control to a data point of the affected product could allow an unauthenticated remote user to escalate its privileges in the context of SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with network access to port 5678/TCP of the SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 server. Successful exploitation requires no user privileges and no user interaction. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise integrity and availability of the SIMATIC WinCC OA system. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this vulnerability was known.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-18-254-04 updated cvss 9.1

ICSA-18-254-04 Siemens SIMATIC WinCC OA

  • Siemens SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 and prior <V3.14-P021
    affected: fixed in V3.14-P021, mitigation portal.etm.at

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Siemens AG SIMATIC WinCC OA V3.14 and prior

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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