CVE-2025-41733 (GCVE-0-2025-41733)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-18 10:17
Modified
2025-11-18 21:17
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Summary
The commissioning wizard on the affected devices does not validate if the device is already initialized. An unauthenticated remote attacker can construct POST requests to set root credentials.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
METZ CONNECT Energy-Controlling EWIO2-M Version: 0.0.0   ≤
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