🛡️ CVE-2024-32741 — simatic-cn-4100-firmware

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-259 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CN 4100 (All versions < V3.0). The affected device contains hard coded password which is used for the privileged system user root and for the boot loader GRUB by default . An attacker who manages to crack the password hash gains root access to the device.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-32741 is classified as CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password. A password is embedded in the product, so anyone with the code or firmware knows it and it cannot be changed easily.

Affected software

CVE-2024-32741 is recorded against 1 package.

  • simatic-cn-4100-firmware (fixed in 3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert-portal.siemens.com
cert-portal.siemens.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-259
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
simatic-cn-4100-firmware — 3.0

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