CVE-2025-41727

Beckhoff: Performing privileged operations and gaining administrator access

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 27, 2026
Updated: Jan 27, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

A local low privileged attacker can bypass the authentication of the Device Manager user interface, allowing them to perform privileged operations and gain administrator access.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CERTVDE

Weaknesses

CWE-420 Unprotected Alternate Channel

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Beckhoff.Device.Manager.XARBeckhoff Automation	0.0.0 to before 2.5.3Affected
MDP software package for TwinCAT/BSDBeckhoff Automation	0.0.0 to before 1.7.0.0Affected
MDP for Beckhoff RT Linux(R)Beckhoff Automation	0.0.0 to before 0.0.5Affected

References

https://certvde.com/de/advisories/VDE-2025-092

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