CVE-2026-8980

Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 9.3 Critical
Published: May 28, 2026
Updated: May 28, 2026
Reserved: May 19, 2026

Description

The Mennekes Amtron series (firmware versions ≤ 5.22.3) is vulnerable to privilege escalation. An authenticated low-privileged user can change the passwords of the admin (operator) and manufacturer accounts via crafted POST requests.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	9.3 Critical	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P	CyberDanube

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AmtronMennekes	5.22.3 and earlierAffectedfrom 5.33.11-21500Not affected

References

https://cyberdanube.com/security-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mennekes-amtron-series/

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