ICSA-23-285-07: Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE180

CISA's summary

Summary: Nozomi Networks has published information on vulnerabilities in Nozomi Guardian/CMC before V22.6.2. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities. Siemens is preparing updates and recommends specific countermeasures for products where updates are not, or not yet available. Customers are advised to consult and implement the workarounds provided in Nozomi Network's upstream security notifications.

Products, as the advisory lists them

DeSpy has not checked any unit, hardware revision or firmware.

Vulnerabilities in this advisory

• CVE-2023-22378 — CVE-2023-22378 · CWE-89

  A blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC, due to improper input validation in the sorting parameter, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries on the DBMS used by the web application. Authenticated users can extract arbitrary information from the DBMS in an uncontrolled way.

• CVE-2023-22843 — CVE-2023-22843 · CWE-79

  An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the appliance can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. An attacker may be able to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of legitimate users. JavaScript injection was possible in the content for Yara rules, while limited HTML injection has been proven for packet and STYX rules. The injected code will be executed in the context of the authenticated victim's session.

• CVE-2023-23574 — CVE-2023-23574 · CWE-89

  A blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC, due to improper input validation in the alerts_count component, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries on the DBMS used by the web application. Authenticated users can extract arbitrary information from the DBMS in an uncontrolled way.

• CVE-2023-23903 — CVE-2023-23903 · CWE-20

  An authenticated administrator can upload a SAML configuration file with the wrong format, with the application not checking the correct file format. Every subsequent application request will return an error. The whole application in rendered unusable until a console intervention.

• CVE-2023-24015 — CVE-2023-24015 · CWE-20

  A partial DoS vulnerability has been detected in the Reports section, exploitable by a malicious authenticated user forcing a report to be saved with its name set as null. The reports section will be partially unavailable for all later attempts to use it, with the report list seemingly stuck on loading.

• CVE-2023-24471 — CVE-2023-24471 · CWE-863

  An access control vulnerability was found, due to the restrictions that are applied on actual assertions not being enforced in their debug functionality. An authenticated user with reduced visibility can obtain unauthorized information via the debug functionality, obtaining data that would normally be not accessible in the Query and Assertions functions.

• CVE-2023-24477 — CVE-2023-24477 · CWE-384

  In certain conditions, depending on timing and the usage of the Chrome web browser, Guardian/CMC versions before 22.6.2 do not always completely invalidate the user session upon logout. Thus an authenticated local attacker may gain acces to the original user's session.

Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them

• Siemens ProductCERT: reporting these vulnerabilities to CISA.

The advisory's legal notice

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Sources

• The advisory at cisa.gov
• The CSAF document (JSON)

DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.