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CVE-2024-43391

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-43391 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Phoenix Contact products, allowing a low-privileged remote attacker to manipulate firewall configurations, including packet filtering and NAT, via the FW_PORTFORWARDING.SRC_IP environment variable. This can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) with a CVSS score of 8.1. The attack requires low privileges and no user interaction, making it easily exploitable. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:tc_mguard_rs4000_4g_vzw_vpn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:tc_mguard_rs4000_4g_vpn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:tc_mguard_rs4000_4g_att_vpn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:tc_mguard_rs4000_3g_vpn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 8.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:tc_mguard_rs2000_4g_vzw_vpn_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 30th 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

cert.vde.com / en/advisories/VDE-2024-039
Third Party Advisory