Buffer overflow in the embedded web server on the Siemens Scalance X Industrial Ethernet switch X414-3E before 3.7.1, X308-2M before 3.7.2, X-300EEC before 3.7.2, XR-300 before 3.7.2, and X-300 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reboot) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL.
CVE-2012-1802 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 10 products from siemens, from siemens, from siemens and 7 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2012-04-18T10:33:35.450
2026-04-29T01:13:23.040
Modified
CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
10.0
6.9
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