CVE-2020-10049 — A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (All versio

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (All versions < V2.10.2). The start-stop scripts for the services of the affected application could allow a local attacker to include arbitrary commands that are executed when services are started or stopped

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (All versions < V2.10.2). The start-stop scripts for the services of the affected application could allow a local attacker to include arbitrary commands that are executed when services are started or stopped interactively by system administrators.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Siemens AG	SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager	All versions < V2.10.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-09-09T18:06:28.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T10:50:57.883Z

09References

• cert-portal.siemens.com — https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-251935.pdf