June 13, 2023, midnight |

Siemens ProductCERT Security Advisories cert-portal.siemens.com

SIMATIC STEP 7 and PCS 7 contain a database management system that could allow remote users with low privileges to use embedded functions of the database (local or in a network share) that have impact on the server.


An attacker with network access to the server network could leverage these embedded functions to run code with elevated privileges in the database management system’s server (where STEP 7 or PCS 7 are running).


Siemens has released an update for SIMATIC STEP …

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