CVE-2019-10997

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered on Phoenix Contact AXC F 2152 (No.2404267) before 2019.0 LTS and AXC F 2152 STARTERKIT (No.1046568) before 2019.0 LTS devices. Protocol Fuzzing on PC WORX Engineer by a man in the middle attacker stops the PLC service. The device must be rebooted, or the PLC service must be restarted manually via a Linux shell.

Affected products

Phoenixcontact Axc F 2152 Firmware: before 2019.0_lts — fixed in 2019.0_lts
Phoenixcontact Axc F 2152 Starterkit Firmware: before 2019.0_lts — fixed in 2019.0_lts

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Phoenixcontact Axc F 2152 Firmware 2019.0_lts; Phoenixcontact Axc F 2152 Starterkit Firmware 2019.0_lts. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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