CVE-2025-41652VulnerabilityPublished 27 May 2025Updated 22 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-41652: Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TX · Use of Weak Hash

Affects Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TXSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.8 Critical.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

9.8Critical

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 41% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 27 May 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TX	Affected =0.0.0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Immediate network segmentation: Isolate Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TX devices from general IT networks and restrict access to trusted management stations only. 2. Implement strict access control lists (ACLs) and firewall rules to limit remote access to the affected devices, ideally allowing management only from secure, internal networks or VPNs. 3. Monitor network traffic for unusual authentication attempts or brute-force patterns targeting these devices. 4. Replace or upgrade devices where possible to models that do not rely on weak cryptographic hashes or that have patched this vulnerability. 5. If patching is not yet available, consider deploying compensating controls such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) at the network level or using external authentication proxies that enforce stronger authentication mechanisms. 6. Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability scans focusing on industrial control systems to detect and remediate similar weaknesses. 7. Engage with Weidmueller support and subscribe to their security advisories to obtain patches or firmware updates as soon as they become available. 8. Train operational technology (OT) staff on recognizing and responding to signs of exploitation related to authentication bypasses.

Description

The devices are vulnerable to an authentication bypass due to flaws in the authorization mechanism. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this weakness by performing brute-force attacks to guess valid credentials or by using MD5 collision techniques to forge authentication hashes, potentially compromising the device.

Impact

For European organizations, particularly those operating in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, and utilities, this vulnerability poses a severe risk. The Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TX is an industrial Ethernet switch commonly deployed in automation and control networks. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to critical network infrastructure, leading to potential data breaches, operational disruptions, and safety hazards. Confidentiality could be compromised by intercepting sensitive operational data, integrity could be undermined by injecting malicious commands or altering control signals, and availability could be affected by disrupting network communications. Given the critical role of industrial control systems in European critical infrastructure, exploitation could have cascading effects on supply chains and public safety. Additionally, the vulnerability's remote and unauthenticated nature increases the risk of widespread attacks, especially if attackers develop automated tools leveraging MD5 collision techniques. The absence of known exploits currently provides a window for proactive defense, but the critical CVSS score underscores the urgency for European organizations to act swiftly.

CWE-328Use of Weak Hash (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessOWASP Top 10 A04:2025: Cryptographic Failures (opens in a new tab)
The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input (preimage attack), find another input that can produce the same hash (2nd preimage attack), or find multiple inputs that evaluate to the same hash (birthday attack).
Architecture and Design
Use an adaptive hash function that can be configured to change the amount of computational effort needed to compute the hash, such as the number of iterations ("stretching") or the amount of memory required. Some hash functions perform salting automatically.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cryptographic Storage (opens in a new tab)
Key Management (opens in a new tab)
Transport Layer Protection (opens in a new tab)
User Privacy Protection (opens in a new tab)
Password Storage (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V2.8.3 (opens in a new tab)
V8.3.7 (opens in a new tab)
V2.9.3 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Web Services API Signature Forgery Leveraging Hash Function Extension Weakness (opens in a new tab)
Subvert Code-signing Facilities (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2025-044/ (opens in a new tab)

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Affected software

Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 23 Aug 2025, 00:40 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-328

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