CVE-2012-2596: Siemens Wincc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XPath functionality in unspecified web applications in Siemens WinCC 7.0 SP3 before Update 2 does not properly handle special characters in parameters, which allows remote authenticated users to read or modify settings via a crafted URL, related to an "XML injection" attack.

Affected products

• Siemens Wincc: version 7.0 only

Published 2012-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.