CVE-2026-14168: ads-tec Industrial IT: Vertical privilege escalation via configuration table write

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-07-28 · updated 2026-07-30
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

A low privileged remote attacker can gain administrator privileges due to missing authorization at the insert path of the configuration table resulting in gaining full system access.

Affected products

ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF1401: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF1421: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3401: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3421: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3801: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3821: from 1.0.0 before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF1401 2.3.0; ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF1421 2.3.0; ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3401 2.3.0; ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3421 2.3.0; ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3801 2.3.0; ads-tec Industrial IT DVG-IRF3821 2.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2026-076/

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