ICSA-24-347-02: Siemens Engineering Platforms

CISA's summary

Summary: Affected products contain a local arbitrary code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to perform actions against the operation system of that environment. 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. Siemens has released products based on the Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal) V20 which are not affected by CVE-2024-52051. See the chapter "Additional Information" below for more details.

Products, as the advisory lists them

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

Vulnerabilities in this advisory

• CVE-2024-52051 — CVE-2024-52051 · CWE-20

  The affected devices do not properly sanitize user-controllable input when parsing user settings. This could allow an attacker to locally execute arbitrary commands in the host operating system with the privileges of the user.

Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them

• Siemens ProductCERT: reporting this vulnerability to CISA.
• Peter Cheng, Elex Feigong Research Institute: reporting this vulnerability

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.