CVE-2019-6579
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2019-04-17
- WeaknessCWE-77
Am I affected?
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Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Spectrum Power 4 (with Web Office Portal). An attacker with network access to the web server on port 80/TCP or 443/TCP could execute system commands with administrative privileges. The security vulnerability could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the affected service. No user interaction is required to exploit this security vulnerability. Successful exploitation of the security vulnerability compromises confidentiality, integrity or availability of the targeted system. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2019-04-1714:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | all versions | 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
ICSA-19-099-02 Siemens Spectrum Power 4.7
Spectrum Power 4
Fix
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-19-099-02 · 1 productTake over bugfix bf-47456_PE_WOP_fix. Bugfix bf-47456_PE_WOP_fix for Web Office Portal can be obtained from the Siemens Energy Customer Support Center at: - Download: support.energy@siemens.com
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-19-099-02 · 1 productSiemens has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations thatcustomers can apply to reduce the risk:firewall. Turn off the web server or limit access to the web server by an external
Advisories and patches
- cert-portal.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 3.19.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.07.5read 2026-10-23
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-77read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score2.3 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2019-04-17
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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