CVE-2025-41692 describes a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Phoenix Contact products, where a high-privileged remote attacker with webUI admin access can brute-force the underlying OS "root" and "user" passwords due to a weak password generation algorithm. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring high privileges, and could lead to high confidentiality impact by compromising the OS. While the EPSS score indicates a low likelihood of exploitation, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there any evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_2708_pn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_2708_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_2608_pn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_2608_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_2516_pn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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