CVE-2011-4529

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Siemens Automation License Manager (ALM) 4.0 through 5.1+SP1+Upd1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long serialid field in an _licensekey command, as demonstrated by the (1) check_licensekey or (2) read_licensekey command.

Affected products

Siemens AG Automation License Manager 5: through 5.1

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/almsrvx_1-adv.txt
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/llisapi.dll/57252401?func=ll&objId=57252401&objAction=csView&nodeid0=17323948&lang=en&siteid=cseus&aktprim=0&extranet=standard&viewreg=WW&load=content
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/114358
http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICSA-11-361-01.pdf
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/almsrvx_1-adv.txt
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/llisapi.dll/57252401?func=ll&objId=57252401&objAction=csView&nodeid0=17323948&lang=en&siteid=cseus&aktprim=0&extranet=standard&viewreg=WW&load=content
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/114358
http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICSA-11-361-01.pdf

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