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CVE-2025-41728: Beckhoff: Information leak via Beckhoff Device Manager
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% 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-125
Description
A low privileged remote attacker may be able to disclose confidential information from the memory of a privileged process by sending specially crafted calls to the Device Manager web service that cause an out-of-bounds read operation under certain circumstances due to ASLR and thereby potentially copy confidential information into a response.
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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