CVE-2026-44099

Local Privilege Escalation via pppd password injection

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Jul 30, 2026
Updated: Jul 30, 2026
Reserved: May 5, 2026

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the system configuration allows a low-privileged local user to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full system compromise.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CERTVDE
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-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CHARX SEC-3150Phoenix Contact	1.0.0 to before 1.9.1Affected
CHARX SEC-3100Phoenix Contact	1.0.0 to before 1.9.1Affected
CHARX SEC-3050Phoenix Contact	1.0.0 to before 1.9.1Affected
CHARX SEC-3000Phoenix Contact	1.0.0 to before 1.9.1Affected

References

https://www.certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2026-008/

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