CVE-2025-25270 is a critical vulnerability affecting multiple Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3000 and SEC-3100 series devices, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to alter device configurations. This can lead to remote code execution as root under specific configurations. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating high awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:charx_sec-3000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:charx_sec-3050_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:charx_sec-3100_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:charx_sec-3150_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.