CVE-2025-41666: high-severity vulnerability in PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 1152
Phoenix Contact: File access due to the replacement of a critical file used by the watchdog
Published
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.6%
A low privileged remote attacker with file access can replace a critical file used by the watchdog to get read, write and execute access to any file on the device after the watchdog has been initialized.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
PHOENIX CONTACT · AXC F 1152PHOENIX CONTACT · AXC F 2152PHOENIX CONTACT · AXC F 3152PHOENIX CONTACT · BPC 9102SPHOENIX CONTACT · RFC 4072SRelated CVEs — PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 1152
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