CVE-2010-2772: Siemens SIMATIC Pcs 7

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568.

Affected products

• Siemens SIMATIC Pcs 7: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Siemens SIMATIC Wincc: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2010-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.