CVE-2025-54754

Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m.

8.6
High

Description

An attacker with adjacent access, without authentication, can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve a hard-coded password embedded in publicly available software. This password can then be used to decrypt sensitive network traffic, affecting the Cognex device.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Cognex
  • Cognex Device
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-259
Use of Hard-coded Password
The product contains a hard-coded password, which it uses for its own inbound authentication or for outbound communication to external components.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a cognex cognex_device / / / / / / / /

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-261-06

Tags

CWE-259
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
2025-09-18
CVE-2025-54754

CVSS Score

8.6 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: ADJACENT
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: PASSIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Sept. 18, 2025, 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov

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