Schneider Electric Vijeo Citect 7.20 and earlier, CitectSCADA 7.20 and earlier, and PowerLogic SCADA 7.20 and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
CVE-2013-2796 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from schneider-electric, from schneider-electric, from schneider-electric organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2013, 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.
2013-08-09T23:55:02.537
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
3.4
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | schneider-electric | citectscada | ≤ 7.20 | Yes |
| Application | schneider-electric | citectscada | 7.10 | Yes |
| Application | schneider-electric | powerlogic_scada | ≤ 7.20 | Yes |
| Application | schneider-electric | powerlogic_scada | 7.10 | Yes |
| Application | schneider-electric | vijeo_citect | ≤ 7.20 | Yes |
| Application | schneider-electric | vijeo_citect | 7.10 | Yes |
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