How severe is CVE-2021-40360?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2021-40360?

This is classified as CWE-200, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2021-40360 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 8.8

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.2 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.1 (All versions < V9.1 SP1), SIMATIC WinCC V15 and earlier (All versions < V15 SP1 Update 7), SIMATIC WinCC V16 (All versions < V16 Update 5), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions < V17 Update 2), SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 (All versions < V7.4 SP1 Update 19), SIMATIC WinCC V7.5 (All versions < V7.5 SP2 Update 6). The password hash of a local user account in the remote server could be granted via public API to a user on the affected system. An authenticated attacker could brute force the password hash and use it to login to the server.

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