Impact
The flaw originates from the construction of shell commands that incorporate unsanitized caller input, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary commands. This leads to remote code execution and can compromise the entire system. The weakness is a classic command injection, identified as CWE‑73.
Affected Systems
Siemens’ SICAM SIAPP SDK, all versions earlier than 2.1.7, was affected by this vulnerability.
Risk and Exploitability
The CVSS score of 8.6 indicates high severity, but the EPSS score of less than 1% suggests a very low probability of exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability is not listed in CISA’s KEV catalog. An attacker would need to supply crafted input to the SDK’s command‑building interface; if successful, and if the process has sufficient privileges, full system compromise is possible.
OpenCVE Enrichment