CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-43768 — Siemens Simatic Cp 1242-7 V2 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CP 1242-7 V2 (6GK7242-7KX31-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 (6GK7243-1BX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 DNP3 (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-1 IEC (incl. SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-7 LTE EU (6GK7243-7KX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-7 LTE US (6GK7243-7SX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1243-8 IRC (6GK7243-8RX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.4.29), SIMATIC CP 1542SP-1 (6GK7542-6UX00-0XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIMATIC CP 1542SP-1 IRC (6GK7542-6VX00-0XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIMATIC CP 1543SP-1 (6GK7543-6WX00-0XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIMATIC CP 443-1 (6GK7443-1EX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.3), SIMATIC CP 443-1 (6GK7443-1EX30-0XE1) (All versions < V3.3), SIMATIC CP 443-1 Advanced (6GK7443-1GX30-0XE0) (All versions < V3.3), SIPLUS ET 200SP CP 1542SP-1 IRC TX RAIL (6AG2542-6VX00-4XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIPLUS ET 200SP CP 1543SP-1 ISEC (6AG1543-6WX00-7XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIPLUS ET 200SP CP 1543SP-1 ISEC TX RAIL (6AG2543-6WX00-4XE0) (All versions < V2.3), SIPLUS NET CP 1242-7 V2 (6AG1242-7K…

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2023-04-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

  • siemens / simatic_cp_1242-7_v2_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_cp_1243-1_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_cp_1243-1_dnp3_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_cp_1243-1_iec_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_cp_1243-7_lte_eu_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_cp_1243-7_lte_us_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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