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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 11:33 – Updated: 2025-07-03 13:15
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-27459
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-03 12:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-257 - Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/… vendor-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Endress+Hauser Endress+Hauser MEAC300-FNADE4 Affected: vers:all/* (custom)
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