Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Improper Input Validation (CVE-2020-13631)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 503973

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

SQLite before 3.32.0 allows a virtual table to be renamed to the name of one of its shadow tables, related to alter.c and build.c.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.

Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

See Also

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109478459/

https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109806100/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 503973

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 11/13/2025

Updated: 11/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_cpu_firmware:3.1.5, cpe:/o:siemens:siplus_s7-1500_cpu_firmware:3.1.5

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Siemens

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13631

CWE: 20