Device crash via malformed XNo parameter
Published Jul 12, 2022 · Updated Apr 21, 2025
A buffer overflow in Siemens SCALANCE X-200 and X-200IRT firmware before 5.2.6 or 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to crash switches. The web server fails to validate the XNo GET parameter before a buffer copy, so a crafted HTTP request can overrun memory. Siemens describes an unauthenticated request, while its CVSS vector requires low privileges and adjacent-network access; the bounded reported consequence is a device crash.
Summary
What happened
A buffer overflow in Siemens SCALANCE X-200 and X-200IRT firmware before 5.2.6 or 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to crash switches. The web server fails to validate the XNo GET parameter before a buffer copy, so a crafted HTTP request can overrun memory. Siemens describes an unauthenticated request, while its CVSS vector requires low privileges and adjacent-network access; the bounded reported consequence is a device crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-26648
- Published
- Jul 12, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Siemens
- Product
- SCALANCE X212-2LD
- Classifications
- CWE-120, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 12, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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