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CVE-2021-33528: WEIDMUELLER: WLAN devices affected by privilege escalation vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-710

Description

In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the iw_console functionality. A specially crafted menu selection string can cause an escape from the restricted console, resulting in system access as the root user. An attacker can send commands while authenticated as a low privilege user to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Weidmueller Ie-Wl-Bl-Ap-Cl-Eu Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wl-Bl-Ap-Cl-Us Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wl-Vl-Ap-Br-Cl-Eu Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wl-Vl-Ap-Br-Cl-Us Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wlt-Bl-Ap-Cl-Eu Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wlt-Bl-Ap-Cl-Us Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wlt-Vl-Ap-Br-Cl-Eu Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10
• Weidmueller Ie-Wlt-Vl-Ap-Br-Cl-Us Firmware: through 1.16.18; through 1.11.10

References

• https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026
• https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026

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