CVE-2016-9157 Denial of service in Siemens SICAM PAS through V8.08

What is CVE-2016-9157?

CVE-2016-9157 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Siemens SICAM PAS through V8.08, published on 5 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in Siemens SICAM PAS (all versions before V8.09) could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition and potentially lead to unauthenticated remote code execution by sending specially crafted packets to port 19234/TCP.

Weakness: CWE-284, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9157?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Siemens Sicam Pas\/Pqs.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9157?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-9157 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-9157 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9157 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Siemens SICAM PAS through V8.08

• CVE-2022-43724 Hardcoded credentials in SICAM PAS/PQS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-8567 Hardcoded credentials in Siemens SICAM PAS before 8.00 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-45205 Privilege escalation in SICAM PAS/PQS High 7.8
• CVE-2022-43722 Code injection in SICAM PAS/PQS High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8566 Hardcoded credentials in Siemens SICAM PAS before 8.00 High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m29m-r759-256j.