7.4
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-54429
SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced (All versions). Affected devices do not properly handle high-volume multicast network traffic, which can exhaust available memory resources in the affected application. This could allow an unauthenticated attacker on the local network segment to cause a denial-of-service condition of the affected application. The affected application becomes inaccessible and requires a manual restart; no project data is lost. Successful exploitation requires a specific project configuration to be already active on the targeted instance.

INFO

Published Date :

July 14, 2026, 10:16 a.m.

Last Modified :

July 14, 2026, 10:16 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-54429 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Siemens simatic_s7-plcsim_advanced
2 Siemens simatic_s7-plcsim_advanced
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Update SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced to a version that addresses memory exhaustion from high-volume multicast traffic.
  • Update SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced software.
  • Monitor network traffic for suspicious patterns.
  • Restart the application if it becomes unresponsive.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-828211.html
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 14, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected [{'vendor': 'Siemens', 'product': 'SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '*', 'versionType': 'custom'}], 'defaultStatus': 'unknown'}]
    Added Description A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced (All versions). Affected devices do not properly handle high-volume multicast network traffic, which can exhaust available memory resources in the affected application. This could allow an unauthenticated attacker on the local network segment to cause a denial-of-service condition of the affected application. The affected application becomes inaccessible and requires a manual restart; no project data is lost. Successful exploitation requires a specific project configuration to be already active on the targeted instance.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-770
    Added Reference https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-828211.html
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