CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-13940 — Siemens S7-1200 Cpu 1211C Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8 PN/DP CPU (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8F PN/DP CPU (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC ET 200pro IM154-8FX PN/DP CPU (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8F PN/DP CPU (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V4.1), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 314C-2 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315-2 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315F-2 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 315T-3 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317-2 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317F-2 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317T-3 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 317TF-3 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319-3 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-300 CPU 319F-3 PN/DP (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V6 and below CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V7 CPU family (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions), SIMATIC WinAC RTX 2010 (All versions)…

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-02-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1211c_firmware
  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1212c_firmware
  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1214c_firmware
  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1215c_firmware
  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1217c_firmware
  • siemens / s7-1200_cpu_1212fc_firmware

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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

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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