CVE-2025-41727 (GCVE-0-2025-41727)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-27 11:36 – Updated: 2026-01-27 13:53
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Title
Beckhoff: Performing privileged operations and gaining administrator access
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-420 - Unprotected Alternate Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff.Device.Manager.XAR Affected: 0.0.0 , < 2.5.3 (semver)
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Credits
Diego Giubertoni from Nozomi Networks
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