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TI-2025-27205 Aliases CVE-2025-40737GHSA-fg27-6v6q-r3w4

Path traversal in Siemens SINEC NMS

Priority MEDIUM 54CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions < V4.0). The affected application does not properly validate file paths when extracting uploaded ZIP files. This could allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to restricted locations and potentially execute code with elevated privileges (ZDI-CAN-26571).

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.13438 96th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed SINEC NMS (Siemens): V4.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
SiemensSINEC NMSbefore V4.0V4.0Patch availableCNA
  • SINEC NMS VendorSiemens Affected before V4.0 Fixed in V4.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:siemens:sinec_nms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 4.0VulnerableSiemens
  • cpe:2.3:a:siemens:sinec_nms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 4.0 Vulnerable ·Siemens

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA SINEC NMS (Siemens) Fixed in V4.0

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Siemens SINEC NMS V4.0

    4 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 4 MEDIUM

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-27206 Path traversal in Siemens SINEC NMSPriority MEDIUM 54
    • TI-2025-27204 Missing authentication in Siemens SINEC NMSPriority MEDIUM 48
    • TI-2025-27203 SQL injection in Siemens SINEC NMSPriority MEDIUM 40
    Show all 4 records →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40737
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fg27-6v6q-r3w4

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2021-17490 mod_proxy SSRF KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-16656 ap_escape_quotes buffer overflow CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-13795 NULL pointer dereference in httpd core CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-02413 NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
  • TI-2021-13105 SQL injection in Siemens SINEC NMS CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
See all 41 →

Sources

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