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CVE-2025-40761

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-288

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 (All versions), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 (All versions). Affected devices do not properly limit access through its Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) mode. This could allow an attacker with physical access to the serial interface to bypass authentication and get access to a root shell on the device.

Affected products

• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536: all versions
• Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000: all versions

References

• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-094954.html

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