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CVE-2019-10931 — Siemens Siprotec 5 Digsi Device Driver security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability has been identified in All other SIPROTEC 5 device types with CPU variants CP300 and CP100 and the respective Ethernet communication modules (All versions ), DIGSI 5 engineering software (All versions < V7.90), SIPROTEC 5 device types 6MD85, 6MD86, 6MD89, 7UM85, 7SA87, 7SD87, 7SL87, 7VK87, 7SA82, 7SA86, 7SD82, 7SD86, 7SL82, 7SL86, 7SJ86, 7SK82, 7SK85, 7SJ82, 7SJ85, 7UT82, 7UT85, 7UT86, 7UT87 and 7VE85 with CPU variants CP300 and CP100 and the respective Ethernet communication modules (All versions < V7.90), SIPROTEC 5 device types 7SS85 and 7KE85 (All versions < V8.01), SIPROTEC 5 device types with CPU variants CP200 and the respective Ethernet communication modules (All versions < V7.59), SIPROTEC 5 relays with CPU variants CP200 and the respective Ethernet communication modules (All versions < V7.59). Specially crafted packets sent to port 443/TCP could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2019-07-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-248

Affected products

  • siemens / siprotec_5_digsi_device_driver
  • siemens / digsi_5_engineering_software

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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