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CVE-2011-4508 (GCVE-0-2011-4508)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-02-03 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:47
VLAI
Summary
The HMI web server in Siemens WinCC flexible 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2008 before SP3; WinCC V11 (aka TIA portal) before SP2 Update 1; the TP, OP, MP, Comfort Panels, and Mobile Panels SIMATIC HMI panels; WinCC V11 Runtime Advanced; and WinCC flexible Runtime generates predictable authentication tokens for cookies, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted cookie.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
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  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.