# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40759"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-12T11:17:10.465Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-13T09:18:19.713Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40759"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40759.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40759"
title: null
summary: "A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM V17 (All versions), SIMATIC STEP 7 V17 (All versions \u003c V17 Update 9), SIMATIC STEP 7 V18 (All versions \u003c V18 Update 6), SIMATIC STEP 7 V19 (All versions \u003c V19 Update 4), SIMATIC STEP 7 V20 (All versions \u003c V20 Update 4), SIMATIC WinCC V17 (All versions \u003c V17 Update 9), SIMATIC WinCC V18 (All versions \u003c V18 Update 6), SIMATIC WinCC V19 (All versions \u003c V19 Update 4), SIMATIC WinCC V20 (All versions \u003c V20 Update 4), SIMOCODE ES V17 (All versions), SIMOCODE ES V18 (All versions), SIMOCODE ES V19 (All versions), SIMOCODE ES V20 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.4 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.5 (All versions), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.6 (All versions \u003c V5.6 SP1 HF7), SIMOTION SCOUT TIA V5.7 (All versions), SINAMICS Startdrive V17 (All versions), SINAMICS Startdrive V18 (All versions), SINAMICS Startdrive V19 (All versions), SINAMICS Startdrive V20 (All versions), SIRIUS Safety ES V17 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Safety ES V18 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Safety ES V19 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Safety ES V20 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Soft Starter ES V17 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Soft Starter ES V18 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Soft Starter ES V19 (TIA Portal) (All versions), SIRIUS Soft Starter ES V20 (TIA Portal) (All versions), TIA Portal Cloud V17 (All versions), TIA Portal Cloud V18 (All versions), TIA Portal Cloud V19 (All versions \u003c V5.2.1.1), TIA Portal Cloud V20 (All versions \u003c V5.2.2.2). Affected products do not properly sanitize stored security properties when parsing project files. This could allow an attacker to cause a type confusion and execute arbitrary code within the affected application."
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