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CVE-2025-41692

A high privileged remote attacker with admin privileges for the webUI can brute-force the "root" and "user" passwords of the underlying OS due to a weak password generation algorithm.

MEDIUM 6.8EPSS 0.30%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A high privileged remote attacker with admin privileges for the webUI can brute-force the "root" and "user" passwords of the underlying OS due to a weak password generation algorithm.

CVSS 3.1
6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.30% probability · 22th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-916
Affected
phoenixcontact/fl switch 2708 pn firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2708 firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2608 pn firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2608 firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2516 pn firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2208c firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2208 pn firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2208 firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2207-fx sm firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2207-fx firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206c-2fx firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2sfx pn firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2sfx firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2fx st firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2fx sm st firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2fx sm firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2206-2fx firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2205 firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2204-2tc-2sfx firmware · phoenixcontact/fl switch 2116 firmware · +40 more
Source
info@cert.vde.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.30%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.