CVE-2022-43514: Siemens Automation License Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been identified in Automation License Manager V5 (All versions), Automation License Manager V6 (All versions < V6.0 SP9 Upd4), TeleControl Server Basic V3 (All versions < V3.1.2). The affected component does not correctly validate the root path on folder related operations, allowing to modify files and folders outside the intended root directory. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute file operations of files outside of the specified root folder. Chained with CVE-2022-43513 this could allow Remote Code Execution.

Affected products

• Siemens Automation License Manager: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.3.4.4 only; version 6.0 only; …

Published 2023-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.