CVE-2025-40587VulnerabilityPublished 10 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-40587: Siemens Polarion V2404 · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Siemens Polarion V2404Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.6 High : upgrade to 2404.5 soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.6High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 23% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 2404.5, 2410.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Feb 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Polarion to 2404.5 (V2404) or 2410.2 (V2410).

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
SiemensPolarion V2404	Affected <2404.5	Fixed in 2404.5
SiemensPolarion V2410	Affected <2410.2	Fixed in 2410.2

AI-suggested

1. Apply official Siemens patches immediately once released for versions prior to V2404.5 and V2410.2. 2. If you cannot patch yet, restrict user permissions to limit who can create or edit document titles, minimizing the risk of malicious input. 3. Implement strict input validation and sanitization on document titles to neutralize script injection vectors. 4. Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict execution of inline scripts and reduce XSS impact. 5. Educate users to be cautious when viewing documents from less trusted collaborators. 6. Monitor logs for unusual activity related to document title changes or user sessions. 7. Consider network segmentation to limit access to Polarion environments. 8. Enforce strong authentication mechanisms and monitor for compromised credentials to reduce attacker foothold. 9. Regularly review and update security configurations of the Polarion platform.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Polarion V2404 (All versions < V2404.5), Polarion V2410 (All versions < V2410.2). The affected application allows arbitrary JavaScript code be included in document titles. This could allow an authenticated remote attacker to conduct a stored cross-site scripting attack by creating specially crafted document titles that are later viewed by other users of the application.

Impact

For European organizations, this vulnerability poses a considerable risk to confidentiality and user trust within collaborative engineering and product lifecycle management environments that use Siemens Polarion. Exploitation could lead to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive project data, session hijacking, and potential lateral movement within corporate networks. Given the collaborative nature of Polarion, malicious scripts could propagate among users, amplifying the impact. Industrial, manufacturing, and engineering firms relying on Siemens software are particularly at risk, as compromised project data could affect intellectual property and operational security. The requirement for authentication limits exposure to internal or partner users, but insider threats or compromised credentials could facilitate exploitation. The vulnerability does not affect availability but could undermine data integrity indirectly through session compromise. European organizations must consider the potential regulatory implications under GDPR if personal data is exposed via XSS attacks.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-035571.html (opens in a new tab)

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 10 Feb 2026, 10:32 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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