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CVE-2023-46142

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46142 is a critical improper permission assignment vulnerability affecting Phoenix Contact PLCnext products. This flaw allows a remote attacker with low privileges to achieve full administrative access to the compromised devices. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2024.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:axc_f_1152_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2024.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:axc_f_2152_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2024.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:axc_f_3152_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2024.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:bpc_9102s_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2024.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:epc_1502_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0075 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

https / /cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2023-056
Broken Link