CVE-2024-6788

Phoenix Contact: update feature from CHARX controller can be used to reset a low privilege user password

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Aug 13, 2024
Updated: Aug 22, 2025
Reserved: Jul 16, 2024

Description

A remote unauthenticated attacker can use the firmware update feature on the LAN interface of the device to reset the password for the predefined, low-privileged user “user-app” to the default password.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H	CERTVDE

Weaknesses

CWE-1392 Use of Default Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CHARX SEC-3000PHOENIX CONTACT	before 1.6.3Affected
CHARX SEC-3050PHOENIX CONTACT	before 1.6.3Affected
CHARX SEC-3100PHOENIX CONTACT	before 1.6.3Affected
CHARX SEC-3150PHOENIX CONTACT	before 1.6.3Affected

References

https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-022

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