Siemens has started releasing security patches to fix a high severity access control vulnerability in its industrial switches tracked as CVE-2017-12736. The flaw was discovered by experts at Siemens and could be exploited by remote attackers to hack some of Siemens industrial communications devices. The vulnerability affects SCALANCE X industrial Ethernet switches, and Ruggedcom switches and serial-to-ethernet devices running the Rugged Operating System. Users can mitigate possible attacks by manually disabling the flaw by disabling RCDP.”]
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