CVE-2024-36398 Privilege escalation in SINEC NMS

What is CVE-2024-36398?

CVE-2024-36398 is a high-severity vulnerability in Siemens SINEC NMS, published on 13 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions < V3.0). The affected application executes a subset of its services as `NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM`. This could allow a local attacker to execute operating system commands with elevated privileges.

Weakness: CWE-250

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36398?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Siemens Sinec Nms.

How do I fix CVE-2024-36398?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-36398 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-36398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Siemens SINEC NMS

• CVE-2024-41940 Command injection in SINEC NMS Critical 9.4
• CVE-2025-40736 Missing authorization in SINEC NMS Critical 9.3
• CVE-2021-33724 Path traversal in SINEC NMS Critical 9.1
• CVE-2021-33725 Path traversal in SINEC NMS Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-23810 SQL injection in SINEC NMS High 8.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-9gq5-mwjf-5wf3.