CVE-2025-25269 Local Privilege Escalation via Unauthenticated Command Injection
An unauthenticated local attacker can inject commands executed as root, leading to privilege escalation on Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-25269?
CVE-2025-25269 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3000, published on 8 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An unauthenticated local attacker can inject a command that is subsequently executed as root, leading to a privilege escalation.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25269?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3000 Firmware, Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3050 Firmware, Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3100 Firmware, Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3150 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2025-25269?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-25269 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-25269 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25269 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3000
- CVE-2025-25270 Remote Code Execution via Unauthenticated Configuration Manipulation
- CVE-2024-25995 PHOENIX CONTACT: Remote code execution in CHARX Series
- CVE-2025-25268 Unauthenticated Configuration Access via Exposed API Endpoint
- CVE-2025-25271 OCPP Backend Configuration via Insecure Defaults
- CVE-2024-26288 PHOENIX CONTACT: Lack of SSL support in CHARX Series
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4435-w7hr-8qwm.