CVE-2021-41544

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-08-08
Updated: 2024-10-11
Assigner: siemens
NVD status: Modified

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Siemens Software Center (All versions < V3.0). A DLL Hijacking vulnerability could allow a local attacker to execute code with elevated privileges by placing a malicious DLL in one of the directories on the DLL search path.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	siemens
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · productcert@siemens.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-28562
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-41544

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0633 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:siemens:software_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 3.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
Siemens · Siemens Software Center	affected All versions < V3.0

References

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-188491.pdf

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD