High

Local Privilege Escalation in Siemens Spectrum Power 4

IdentifiersCVE-2024-32009CWE-266· Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVE-2024-32009 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Siemens Spectrum Power 4 in all versions earlier than V4.70 SP12 Update 2. The flaw is caused by incorrectly set permissions on a binary within the application, enabling a local attacker to abuse the misconfiguration and elevate privileges to the administrative level. The issue is not remotely exploitable and requires local access to the affected system.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows a local attacker to obtain administrative privileges on the affected host. With elevated privileges, an attacker can fully compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system, including accessing protected data, modifying system or application configuration, interfering with operations, and potentially disabling services.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate upgrading is not possible, restrict local access to trusted users only and review the affected installation for improperly permissive binary permissions. Apply least-privilege controls for local accounts and monitor for unauthorized privilege escalation activity until the vendor-fixed version can be deployed.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Siemens Spectrum Power 4 to V4.70 SP12 Update 2 or later. In addition, verify and correct the permissions on the affected binary to ensure that non-administrative local users cannot abuse it for privilege escalation.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.

ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

5 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Nov 11, 2025

CVE-2024-32009 - Spectrum Power Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Siemens Spectrum Power 4 caused by incorrectly set permissions on a binary, allowing a local attacker to gain administrative privileges.

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