CVE-2016-5744
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2016-07-22
- WeaknessCWE-200
Am I affected?
Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat sometimes backport a fix without changing the upstream version number: such a version reads « to verify », never « affected ».With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.
Description
Siemens SIMATIC WinCC 7.0 through SP3 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary WinCC station files via crafted packets.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2016-07-2215:59CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-5744?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-5744?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | = 7.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.2 | = 7.2 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
Siemens SIMATIC WinCC, PCS 7, and WinCC Runtime Professional Vulnerabilities (Update C)
Siemens SIMATIC WinCC 7.0 SP2: <Update_12 · Siemens SIMATIC WinCC 7.0 SP3: <Update_8 · Siemens SIMATIC WinCC 7.2: <Update_13 · +7 more
Fix
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSiemens has produced updates for the following products and strongly encourages users to upgrade to the new versions as soon as possible: SIMATIC WinCC V7.0 SP2: Update to V7.0 SP2 Update 12 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109741519)
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSIMATIC WinCC V7.0 SP3:: Update to V7.0 SP3 Update 8 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109741127)
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSIMATIC WinCC V7.2: Update to WinCC V7.2 Update 13 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109739416)
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSIMATIC WinCC V7.3: Update to WinCC V7.3 Update 10 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109738470)
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSIMATIC WinCC V7.4: Update to WinCC V7.4 Update 1 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/de/view/109738653)
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-16-208-01C · 10 productsSIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1 SP4 and earlier versions: WinCC: Update to WinCC V7.0 SP2 Update 12 (https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109741519)
Advisories and patches
- www.siemens.comMitigation · Vendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.05read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-200read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score4.4 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Published
- 2016-07-22
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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