"Siemens Industrial Product Impacted by Exploited Palo Alto Firewall Vulnerability"
The recently disclosed Palo Alto Networks firewall vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-3400, which has been exploited in attacks for at least one month, has recently been found to impact one of Siemens’ industrial products. In a recent advisory, Siemens revealed that its Ruggedcom APE1808 devices configured with a Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall (NGFW) could be affected by CVE-2024-3400. Siemens notes that it is preparing updates for the affected product and, in the meantime, has provided workarounds and mitigations. The Ruggedcom APE1808, an industrial application hosting platform, enables organizations to deploy commercially available applications for edge computing and cybersecurity in harsh industrial environments. CVE-2024-3400 is known to have been exploited in the wild, but Siemens does not mention anything about attacks specifically targeting its product.