CVE-2025-40766VulnerabilityPublished 12 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-40766: Siemens SINEC Traffic Analyzer · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affects Siemens SINEC Traffic AnalyzerSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 07:57 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.5Medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 7% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

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

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

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

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
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: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 12 Aug 2025
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 2026-10-26.

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

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Siemens SINEC Traffic Analyzer	Affected =0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Apply resource limits on Docker containers: Administrators should configure CPU, memory, and I/O limits for all Docker containers run by SINEC Traffic Analyzer to prevent any single container from exhausting host resources. 2. Upgrade to Siemens SINEC Traffic Analyzer version 3.0 or later once available, as this version presumably addresses the vulnerability. 3. Restrict local access: Limit user accounts that can interact with the SINEC Traffic Analyzer host and Docker daemon to trusted personnel only, minimizing risk of low-privilege exploitation. 4. Monitor resource usage: Implement monitoring and alerting on container resource consumption to detect abnormal spikes indicative of exploitation attempts. 5. Network segmentation: Isolate the SINEC Traffic Analyzer system within a secure network segment to reduce attack surface and lateral movement opportunities. 6. Follow Siemens security advisories closely for patches or workarounds. 7. Conduct regular security audits and penetration tests focusing on container security and resource management in ICS environments.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC Traffic Analyzer (6GK8822-1BG01-0BA0) (All versions < V3.0). The affected application runs docker containers without adequate resource and security limitations. This could allow an attacker to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

Impact

For European organizations, especially those in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, and utilities, this vulnerability poses a significant risk to operational continuity. SINEC Traffic Analyzer is commonly deployed in industrial control system (ICS) environments to monitor network traffic and detect anomalies. A successful DoS attack exploiting this vulnerability could disrupt network monitoring capabilities, delaying detection of other cyber threats or operational issues. This could lead to prolonged downtime, impacting production lines, critical infrastructure management, or safety systems. Since the attack requires local access with low privileges, insider threats or attackers who have gained limited foothold could escalate impact by causing service outages. The lack of confidentiality or integrity impact reduces risk of data breaches, but availability degradation in critical environments can have cascading effects on safety and compliance with European regulations such as NIS2. The medium severity suggests moderate urgency but given the critical nature of affected environments, organizations should prioritize mitigation.

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
MITRE discourages mapping vulnerabilities to this broad entry; the root cause is usually a more specific weakness.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place.
Architecture and Design
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or; uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Sustained Client Engagement (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-517338.html (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 12 Aug 2025, 11:50 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-400

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