CVE-2025-40584 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-40584

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4...

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.5 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.6 (All versions < V5.6 SP1 HF7), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 SP1 HF1), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.4 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.5 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.6 (All versions < V5.6 SP1 HF7), SIMOTION SCOUT V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 SP1 HF1), SINAMICS STARTER V5.5 (All versions), SINAMICS STARTER V5.6 (All versions), SINAMICS STARTER V5.7 (All versions < V5.7 HF2). The affected application contains a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability while parsing specially crafted XML files. This could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files in the system.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4, SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.5, SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.6, SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.7, SIMOTION SCOUT V5.4, SIMOTION SCOUT V5.5, SIMOTION SCOUT V5.6, SIMOTION SCOUT V5.7, SINAMICS STARTER V5.5, SINAMICS STARTER V5.6, SINAMICS STARTER V5.7
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 12th, 2025
Last Modified: October 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)