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CVE-2025-41727: Beckhoff: Performing privileged operations and gaining administrator access
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2026-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-420
Description
A local low privileged attacker can bypass the authentication of the Device Manager user interface, allowing them to perform privileged operations and gain administrator access.
Affected products
- Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff.Device.Manager.XAR: before 2.5.3 — fixed in 2.5.3
- Beckhoff Automation MDP for Beckhoff RT Linux(R): before 0.0.5 — fixed in 0.0.5
- Beckhoff Automation MDP software package for TwinCAT/BSD: before 1.7.0.0 — fixed in 1.7.0.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff.Device.Manager.XAR 2.5.3; Beckhoff Automation MDP for Beckhoff RT Linux(R) 0.0.5; Beckhoff Automation MDP software package for TwinCAT/BSD 1.7.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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