Siemens SINEC Security Monitor prior 4.9.0 path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Siemens SINEC Security Monitor. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-47563. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Siemens SINEC Security Monitor and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC Security Monitor (All versions < V4.9.0). The affected application does not properly validate a file path that is supplied to an endpoint intended to create CSR files. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to create files in writable directories outside the intended location and thus compromise integrity of files in those writable directories.

The advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-47563 since 09/27/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/10/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 4.9.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Siemens

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• SINEC Security Monitor

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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