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CVE record · CVE-2022-38465

Insufficiently protected credentials in Siemens SIMATIC Drive Controller family and others

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0024 · 15th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: siemens) at 11 Oct 2022, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Siemens SIMATIC Drive Controller family
  • affected All versions < V2.9.2
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC (incl. SIPLUS variants)
  • affected All versions
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller CPU 1515SP PC2 (incl. SIPLUS variants)
  • affected All versions < V21.9
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants)
  • affected All versions < V4.5.0
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants)
  • affected All versions < V2.9.2
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller
  • affected All versions < V21.9
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced
  • affected All versions < V4.0
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SINUMERIK MC
  • affected All versions < V6.21
Other versions: unknown
Siemens SINUMERIK ONE
  • affected All versions < V6.21
Other versions: unknown
Identifiers
CVE-2022-38465
CNA
siemens
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-522
Tags
Published
11 Oct 2022
Updated
21 Apr 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.3 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C CNA (siemens)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0024, the 15th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Oct 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.