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CVE-2024-41682 Siemens CVE debrief

CVE-2024-41682 is a medium-severity authentication weakness in Siemens Location Intelligence family products, published August 13, 2024. The vulnerability stems from insufficient enforcement of rate limiting on authentication attempts, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to conduct brute force attacks against legitimate user credentials. The CVSS 3.1 score of 5.3 reflects network accessibility with low attack complexity and no required privileges or user interaction, resulting in low confidentiality impact. Siemens has released a vendor fix requiring update to version 4.4 or later. The vulnerability is not listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Organizations should prioritize patching and implement compensating network-level access controls where immediate patching is not feasible.

Vendor
Siemens
Product
Location Intelligence family
CVSS
MEDIUM 5.3
CISA KEV
Not listed in stored evidence
Original CVE published
2024-08-13
Original CVE updated
2024-08-13
Advisory published
2024-08-13
Advisory updated
2024-08-13

Who should care

Organizations operating Siemens Location Intelligence family products in industrial or enterprise environments, particularly those with externally accessible management interfaces. Security teams responsible for ICS/OT infrastructure, identity and access management administrators, and compliance officers monitoring for authentication control weaknesses should prioritize assessment and remediation.

Technical summary

The Siemens Location Intelligence family fails to properly restrict excessive authentication attempts, violating secure authentication design principles. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this weakness remotely over the network to systematically guess legitimate user passwords without triggering account lockout or rate limiting protections. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. Successful exploitation grants the attacker access to authenticated functionality with the compromised user's privileges. The attack requires no user interaction and can be conducted with low complexity. Siemens has addressed this in version 4.4 through implementation of proper authentication attempt restrictions.

Defensive priority

medium

Recommended defensive actions

  • Update Siemens Location Intelligence family products to version 4.4 or later per vendor guidance
  • Implement network-level access restrictions to limit exposure of affected authentication interfaces
  • Monitor authentication logs for anomalous login attempt patterns indicative of brute force activity
  • Apply defense-in-depth controls per CISA ICS recommended practices for industrial control systems

Evidence notes

Vulnerability description and remediation guidance sourced from CISA CSAF advisory ICSA-24-228-07 and Siemens security advisory SSA-720392. CVSS vector confirms network attack vector with proof-of-concept exploit availability. Vendor fix specified as update to V4.4 or later.

Sources and references

Verified primary and authoritative sources

  • CVE-2024-41682 CVE Program record

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41682

    CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.

  • CVE-2024-41682 NVD vulnerability detail

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41682

    NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.

Supplemental references

  • Source item URL

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2024/icsa-24-228-07.json

    cisa_csaf

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/csaf/ssa-720392.json

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-720392.html

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-228-07

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-10-301-01

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/topics/industrial-control-systems

    Reference

  • Source reference

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/recommended_practices/NCCIC_ICS-CERT_Defense_in_Depth_2016_S508C.pdf

    Reference

Methodology and review provenance

AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.