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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-40796 json

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS neo V4.1 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS neo V5.0 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS neo V6.0 (All…

published 2025-09-09 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-23 16 d ago also EUVD-2025-27239

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS neo V4.1 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS neo V5.0 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS neo V6.0 (All versions < V6.0 SP1 Update 1), User Management Component (UMC) (All versions < V2.15.1.3). Affected products contain a out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the integrated UMC component. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition.

Patch / fix

  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V6.0 V6.0 SP1 Update 1
  • Siemens User Management Component (UMC) V2.15.1.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-25-254-07 updated cvss 7.5

Siemens User Management Component (UMC)

  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V4.1 Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V5.0
    affected: mitigation, no fix planned
  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V6.0 < 6.0.1.1
    affected: fixed in V6.0, mitigation support.industry.siemens.com
  • Siemens User Management Component (UMC) < 2.15.1.3
    affected: fixed in V2.15.1.3, mitigation support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V4.1
  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V5.0
  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo V6.0
  • Siemens User Management Component (UMC)

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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