CVE-2018-13805 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published High CVE-2018-13805

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC ET 200SP Open...

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller (All versions >= V2.0 and < V2.1.6), SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller (All versions >= V2.0 and < V2.5), SIMATIC S7-1500 incl. F (All versions >= V2.0 and < V2.5). An attacker can cause a denial-of-service condition on the network stack by sending a large number of specially crafted packets to the PLC. The PLC will lose its ability to communicate over the network. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with network access to the affected systems. Successful exploitation requires no privileges and no user interaction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to compromise availability of the network connectivity. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this vulnerability was known.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2018-13805

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

SIMATIC ET 200SP Open Controller, SIMATIC S7-1500 Software Controller, SIMATIC S7-1500 incl. F
Vulnerable Versions:
All versions >= V2.0 and < V2.1.6, All versions >= V2.0 and < V2.5

Timeline

Official Publish: October 10th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.