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Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug

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Overview

Siemens has identified multiple vulnerabilities in its SIDIS Secured SmartPlug, particularly affecting versions prior to 7.26.0310. The vulnerabilities stem from components like OpenSSL and OpenSSH, leading to severe security risks including improper message integrity enforcement and various buffer overflow issues. These flaws could allow attackers to exploit the system for arbitrary code execution or denial of service. Siemens strongly recommends updating to the latest version to mitigate these risks. This situation is critical, especially for users in critical manufacturing sectors globally, as it exposes them to potential exploitation by malicious actors.

Key Takeaways

  • Affected Systems: Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug versions < 7.26.0310; affected components include OpenSSL, OpenSSH, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, busybox, and libarchive.
  • Action Required: Update to SIDIS Secured SmartPlug version 7.
  • Timeline: Disclosed on October 2023

Original Article Summary

View CSAF Summary SIDIS Secured SmartPlug before V7.26.0310 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the components OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and several other packages as described below. Siemens has released a new version of SIDIS Secured SmartPlug and recommends to update to the latest version. The following versions of Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug are affected: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug vers:intdot/<7.26.0310 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.8 Siemens Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel, Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption, Out-of-bounds Write, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'), Integer Overflow or Wraparound, Out-of-bounds Read, Covert Timing Channel, Detection of Error Condition Without Action, Incorrect Authorization Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Germany Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2022-23303 The implementations of SAE in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9494. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-924 Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2022-23304 The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-924 Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2022-37660 In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by passively observing public keys, re-using the encrypting element Qi and subtracting it from the captured message M (X = M - Qi). This will result in the public ephemeral key X; the only element required to subvert the PKEX association. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-323 Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVE-2022-48174 There is a stack overflow vulnerability in ash.c:6030 in busybox before 1.35. In the environment of Internet of Vehicles, this vulnerability can be executed from command to arbitrary code execution. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2025-5222 A stack buffer overflow was found in Internationl components for unicode (ICU ). While running the genrb binary, the 'subtag' struct overflowed at the SRBRoot::addTag function. This issue may lead to memory corruption and local arbitrary code execution. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2025-5914 A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library, specifically within the archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() function. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can ultimately lead to a double-free condition. Exploiting a double-free vulnerability can result in memory corruption, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2025-9230 Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption which can have various consequences including a Denial of Service or Execution of attacker-supplied code. Although the consequences of a successful exploit of this vulnerability could be severe, the probability that the attacker would be able to perform it is low. Besides, password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS messages is very rarely used. For that reason the issue was assessed as Moderate severity according to our Security Policy. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the CMS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2025-9231 Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow remote recovery of the private key exists in the SM2 algorithm implementation on 64 bit ARM platforms. Impact summary: A timing side-channel in SM2 signature computations on 64 bit ARM platforms could allow recovering the private key by an attacker.. While remote key recovery over a network was not attempted by the reporter, timing measurements revealed a timing signal which may allow such an attack. OpenSSL does not directly support certificates with SM2 keys in TLS, and so this CVE is not relevant in most TLS contexts. However, given that it is possible to add support for such certificates via a custom provider, coupled with the fact that in such a custom provider context the private key may be recoverable via remote timing measurements, we consider this to be a Moderate severity issue. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as SM2 is not an approved algorithm. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVE-2025-9232 Issue summary: An application using the OpenSSL HTTP client API functions may trigger an out-of-bounds read if the 'no_proxy' environment variable is set and the host portion of the authority component of the HTTP URL is an IPv6 address. Impact summary: An out-of-bounds read can trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application. The OpenSSL HTTP client API functions can be used directly by applications but they are also used by the OCSP client functions and CMP (Certificate Management Protocol) client implementation in OpenSSL. However the URLs used by these implementations are unlikely to be controlled by an attacker. In this vulnerable code the out of bounds read can only trigger a crash. Furthermore the vulnerability requires an attacker-controlled URL to be passed from an application to the OpenSSL function and the user has to have a 'no_proxy' environment variable set. For the aforementioned reasons the issue was assessed as Low severity. The vulnerable code was introduced in the following patch releases: 3.0.16, 3.1.8, 3.2.4, 3.3.3, 3.4.0 and 3.5.0. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the HTTP client implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 5.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2025-26465 A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. For an attack to be considered successful, the attacker needs to manage to exhaust the client's memory resource first, turning the attack complexity high. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-390 Detection of Error Condition Without Action Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 6.8 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVE-2025-32462 Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host nor ALL, allows listed users to execute commands on unintended machines. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 2.8 LOW CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N CVE-2026-5121 A flaw was found in libarchive. On 32-bit systems, an integer overflow vulnerability exists in the zisofs block pointer allocation logic. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted ISO9660 image, which can lead to a heap buffer overflow. This could potentially allow for arbitrary code execution on the affected system. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug Vendor: Siemens Product Version: SIDIS Secured SmartPlug < V7.26.0310 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V7.26.0310 or later version Relevant CWE: CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String 3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Acknowledgments Siemens ProductCERT reported these vulnerabilities to CISA. General Recommendations 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. Additional information on Industrial Security by Siemens can be found at: https://www.siemens.com/industrialsecurity Additional Resources For further inquiries on security vulnerabilities in Siemens products and solutions, please contact the Siemens ProductCERT: https://www.siemens.com/cert/advisories Terms of Use The use of Siemens Security Advisories is subject to the terms and conditions listed on: https://www.siemens.com/productcert/terms-of-use. Legal Notice and Terms of Use This product is provided subject to this Notification (https://www.cisa.gov/notification) and this Privacy & Use policy (https://www.cisa.gov/privacy-policy). Recommended Practices CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the exploitation risk of this vulnerability. Minimize network exposure for all control system devices and/or systems, and ensure they are not accessible from the internet. Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolate them from business networks. When remote access is required, use more secure methods, such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), recognizing VPNs may have vulnerabilities and should be updated to the most recent version available. Also recognize VPN is only as secure as its connected devices. CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures. CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies. CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets. Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B--Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies. Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents. Advisory Conversion Disclaimer This ICSA is a verbatim republication of Siemens ProductCERT SSA-585531 from a direct conversion of the vendor's Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) advisory. This is republished to CISA's website as a means of increasing visibility and is provided "as-is" for informational purposes only. CISA is not responsible for the editorial or technical accuracy of republished advisories and provides no warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within this advisory. Further, CISA does not endorse any commercial product or service. Please contact Siemens ProductCERT directly for any questions regarding this advisory. Revision History Initial Release Date: 2026-07-14 Date Revision Summary 2026-07-14 1 Publication Date 2026-07-21 2 Initial CISA Republication of Siemens ProductCERT SSA-585531 advisory Legal Notice and Terms of Use

Impact

Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug versions < 7.26.0310; affected components include OpenSSL, OpenSSH, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, busybox, and libarchive.

Exploitation Status

No active exploitation has been reported at this time. However, organizations should still apply patches promptly as proof-of-concept code may exist.

Timeline

Disclosed on October 2023

Remediation

Update to SIDIS Secured SmartPlug version 7.26.0310 or later.

Additional Information

This threat intelligence is aggregated from trusted cybersecurity sources. For the most up-to-date information, technical details, and official vendor guidance, please refer to the original article linked below.

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