CVE-2019-12550 is a critical vulnerability affecting WAGO 852-303 (before FW06), 852-1305 (before FW06), and 852-1505 (before FW03) industrial switches, stemming from hardcoded user credentials for SSH and TELNET access. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain full control over affected devices, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.2.2.s0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:wago:852-303_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.1.6.s0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:wago:852-1305_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.1.5.s0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:wago:852-1505_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.