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CVE-2024-28133: PHOENIX CONTACT: Privilege escalation in CHARX Series

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

A local low privileged attacker can use an untrusted search path in a CHARX system utility to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3000 Firmware: through 1.5.1
• Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3050 Firmware: through 1.5.1
• Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3100 Firmware: through 1.5.1
• Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3150 Firmware: through 1.5.1

References

• https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-019
• https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2024-019

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