CVE-2022-43724: Siemens Sicam Pas/pqs

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been identified in SICAM PAS/PQS (All versions < V7.0). Affected software transmits the database credentials for the inbuilt SQL server in cleartext. In combination with the by default enabled xp_cmdshell feature unauthenticated remote attackers could execute custom OS commands. At the time of assigning the CVE, the affected firmware version of the component has already been superseded by succeeding mainline versions.

Affected products

• Siemens Sicam Pas/pqs: before 7.0 (fixed in 7.0)

Published 2022-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.