CVE-2025-27459 (GCVE-0-2025-27459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 11:33 – Updated: 2025-07-03 13:15
VLAI?
Summary
The VNC application stores its passwords encrypted within the registry but uses DES for encryption. As DES is broken, the original passwords can be recovered.
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-257 - Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format
Assigner
References
https://www.endress.com x_Endress+Hauser
https://sick.com/psirt x_SICK PSIRT Security Advisories
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ic… x_ICS-CERT recommended practices on Industrial Security
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1 x_CVSS v3.1 Calculator
https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/… x_The canonical URL.
https://sick.com/psirt vendor-advisory
https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/… vendor-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Endress+Hauser Endress+Hauser MEAC300-FNADE4 Affected: vers:all/* (custom)
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