CVE-2025-0867 Privilege Escalation in MEAC300
Hardcoded administrator credentials allow standard users to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges, leading to privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-0867?
CVE-2025-0867 is a critical vulnerability in SICK MEAC300, published on 14 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The standard user uses the run as function to start the MEAC applications with administrative privileges. To ensure that the system can startup on its own, the credentials of the administrator were stored. Consequently, the EPC2 user can execute any command with administrative privileges. This allows a privilege escalation to the administrative level.
Weakness: CWE-522
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0867?
How do I fix CVE-2025-0867?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0867 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-0867 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0867 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5gcv-59gg-xc7c.