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CVE-2025-0867: Privilege Escalation in MEAC300

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

The standard user uses the run as function to start the MEAC applications with administrative privileges. To ensure that the system can startup on its own, the credentials of the administrator were stored. Consequently, the EPC2 user can execute any command with administrative privileges. This allows a privilege escalation to the administrative level.

Affected products

• SICK AG SICK MEAC300: before 4.0.54.21 — fixed in 4.0.54.21

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SICK AG SICK MEAC300 4.0.54.21. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://cdn.sick.com/media/docs/1/11/411/Special_information_CYBERSECURITY_BY_SICK_en_IM0084411.PDF
• https://sick.com/psirt
• https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices
• https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1
• https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0001.json
• https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0001.pdf

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