ICSA-24-256-08: Siemens Industrial Products
CISA advisory · released 2024-09-10
Source record Collected from CISA's CSAF advisory feed
- Distribution label in the document: TLP:WHITE
- Revision 5, 2025-05-06 (final)
CISA's summary
Summary: A Socket.IO vulnerability affects multiple Siemens industrial products. This vulnerability consists of a specially crafted Socket.IO packet that triggers an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server killing the Node.js process allowing a remote attacker to cause Denial-of-Service condition in the affected products. Siemens has released new versions for several affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. Siemens is preparing further fix versions and recommends countermeasures for products where fixes are not, or not yet available.
Products, as the advisory lists them
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens | AI Model Deployer | <V1.1 |
| Siemens | Data Flow Monitoring Industrial Edge Device User Interface (DFM IED UI) | <V0.0.6 |
| Siemens | LiveTwin Industrial Edge app (6AV2170-0BL00-0AA0) | <V2.4 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC PCS neo V4.1 | <V4.1_Update_2 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC PCS neo V5.0 | <V5.0_Update_1 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V17 | vers:all/* |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V18 | <V18_Update_5 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V19 | <V19_Update_3 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 | vers:all/* |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 | <V7.5_SP2_Update_18 |
| Siemens | SIMATIC WinCC V8.0 | <V8.0_Update_5 |
| Siemens | TIA Administrator | <V3.0.3 |
DeSpy has not checked any unit, hardware revision or firmware.
Vulnerabilities in this advisory
- CVE-2024-38355 — CVE-2024-38355 · CWE-20
Socket.IO is an open source, real-time, bidirectional, event-based, communication framework. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This issue is fixed by commit `15af22fc22` which has been included in `socket.io@4.6.2` (released in May 2023). The fix was backported in the 2.x branch as well with commit `d30630ba10`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may attach a listener for the "error" event to catch these errors.
Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them
- Siemens ProductCERT: reporting this vulnerability to CISA.
The advisory's legal notice
The use of Siemens Security Advisories is subject to the terms and conditions listed on: https://www.siemens.com/productcert/terms-of-use.
Sources
DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.
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