ICSA-25-072-11: Siemens SIMATIC IPC Family, ITP1000, and Field PGs

CISA's summary

Summary: Multiple vulnerabilities has been identified in Siemens SIMATIC IPCs, SIMATIC Tablet PCs, and SIMATIC Field PGs that can allow an authenticated attacker to alter the secure boot and password configurations. Siemens has released new versions of BIOS for several affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. Siemens is preparing further fix versions and recommends specific countermeasures for products where fixes are not, or not yet available.

Products, as the advisory lists them

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

Vulnerabilities in this advisory

• CVE-2024-56181 — CVE-2024-56181 · CWE-693

  The affected devices have insufficient protection mechanism for the EFI(Extensible Firmware Interface) variables stored on the device. This could allow an authenticated attacker to alter the secure boot configuration without proper authorization by directly communicate with the flash controller.

• CVE-2024-56182 — CVE-2024-56182 · CWE-693

  The affected devices have insufficient protection mechanism for the EFI(Extensible Firmware Interface) variables stored on the device. This could allow an authenticated attacker to disable the BIOS password without proper authorization by directly communicate with the flash controller.

Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them

• Siemens ProductCERT: reported 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.