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The substation protection tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in industrial protection relays used in electric substations. Recent content highlights a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2024-52504) affecting Siemens SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC 4 Compact devices, which are critical for substation protection. The vulnerability can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker during interrupted file-transfer operations, with a CVSS v4 score of 8.7. Many impacted SKUs have no fix planned, while others require firmware updates. This tag is relevant for professionals involved in substation protection, industrial control system security, and power system reliability.
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    High-Severity DoS in Siemens SIPROTEC 4 (CVE-2024-52504) with Limited Fixes

    Siemens has confirmed a widespread denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting multiple models in the SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC 4 Compact line that can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker during interrupted file-transfer operations; the issue is tracked as CVE-2024-52504 and...
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    • cisa ics advisory critical infrastructure cve-2024-52504 cvss 4.0 8.7 dos vulnerability failover firmware industrial control systems network segmentation ot security productcert remote exploitation siemens siprotec siprotec 4 siprotec 4 compact ssa-400089 substation protection v4.78
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