CVE-2020-15787 (GCVE-0-2020-15787)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-09 18:11
Modified
2024-08-04 13:22
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels (All versions <= V16). Affected devices insufficiently validate authentication attempts as the information given can be truncated to match only a set number of characters versus the whole provided string. This could allow a remote attacker to discover user passwords and obtain access to the Sm@rt Server via a brute-force attack.
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Siemens SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panels Version: All versions <= V16
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