CVE-2025-46352: Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

The CS5000 Fire Panel is vulnerable due to a hard-coded password that runs on a VNC server and is visible as a string in the binary responsible for running VNC. This password cannot be altered, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to gain remote access to the panel. Such access could enable an attacker to operate the panel remotely, potentially putting the fire panel into a non-functional state and causing serious safety issues.

Affected products

Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel: all versions

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-148-03
https://www.consiliumsafety.com/en/support/

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