CVE-2025-24348 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Bosch Rexroth AG's ctrlX OS - Device Admin, specifically within the "Network Interfaces" functionality of its web application. The vulnerability arises from improper validation of the syntactic correctness of input (CWE-1286), allowing a remote attacker with low-privileged authenticated access to manipulate the wireless network configuration file by sending a crafted HTTP request. This manipulation can lead to integrity and availability impacts on the device's network configuration. The vulnerability affects multiple versions of ctrlX OS (1.12.0, 1.20.0, and 2.6.0), indicating a persistent issue across several releases. The CVSS v3.1 score is 5.4, reflecting a medium severity level, with the vector indicating network attack vector (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring privileges (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), unchanged scope (S:U), no confidentiality impact (C:N), low integrity impact (I:L), and low availability impact (A:L). The lack of known exploits in the wild suggests it is not yet actively exploited, but the vulnerability's nature means it could be leveraged to disrupt wireless network configurations, potentially causing denial of service or network misconfigurations that degrade operational reliability. Given that ctrlX OS is an industrial operating system used in automation and control environments, this vulnerability could affect critical industrial processes if exploited.

For European organizations, especially those in industrial automation, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors, this vulnerability poses a risk to operational continuity and network reliability. Manipulation of wireless network configurations could lead to loss of connectivity, unauthorized network access points, or denial of service conditions, impacting production lines or critical control systems. The integrity of network settings is crucial in industrial environments to maintain secure and stable communications. Disruption could result in downtime, financial losses, and safety risks. Since the vulnerability requires low-privileged authenticated access, insider threats or compromised credentials could be leveraged by attackers to exploit this flaw. The absence of confidentiality impact reduces the risk of data leakage, but the integrity and availability impacts remain significant in industrial contexts. European organizations relying on Bosch Rexroth's ctrlX OS for device administration should consider this vulnerability a risk to their operational technology (OT) security posture.

1. Implement strict access controls and monitoring on the ctrlX OS Device Admin web interface to limit authenticated user privileges and detect anomalous configuration changes. 2. Enforce strong authentication mechanisms and credential hygiene to prevent unauthorized low-privileged access. 3. Network segmentation should isolate wireless network configuration interfaces from general IT networks to reduce exposure. 4. Regularly audit wireless network configurations and logs for unauthorized changes or suspicious activity. 5. Since no patch links are currently available, coordinate with Bosch Rexroth for timely updates or workarounds. 6. Employ application-layer firewalls or web application firewalls (WAFs) to detect and block crafted HTTP requests targeting the network interfaces functionality. 7. Develop and test incident response plans specific to OT network configuration compromises to minimize downtime. 8. Consider disabling wireless network configuration via the web interface if not required or restrict it to secure management networks only.