March 3, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2016-8562 — Siemens SIMATIC CP
Siemens SIMATIC CP 1543-1 Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-03-03- Federal due date
2022-03-24- Vendor
- Siemens
- Product
- SIMATIC CP
- EPSS
- 88.9th percentile (score 0.036, as of
2026-09-16) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8562
CISA short description
An improper privilege management vulnerability exists within the Siemens SIMATIC Communication Processor (CP) that allows a privileged attacker to remotely cause a denial of service.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.