# CVE-2025-48467: Denial of Service via Malformed Modbus Packets

> Attackers can cause repeated reboots and remote denial-of-service in Advantech WISE devices by sending malformed Modbus packets.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 25 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r835-c8cp-8pgr

## What is CVE-2025-48467?

CVE-2025-48467 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE), published on 24 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause repeated reboots, potentially leading to remote denial-of-service and system unavailability.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48467?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Advantech Wise-4010lan Firmware, Advantech Wise-4050lan Firmware, Advantech Wise-4060lan Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-48467?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48467 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-48467 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48467 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE)

- [CVE-2025-48469](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48469/): Unauthenticated Firmware Upload (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2025-48466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48466/): Modbus Command Injection without Authentication (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2025-48468](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48468/): Open JTAG Debug Port (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-48461](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48461/): Weak Session Cookie Entropy (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2025-48462](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48462/): Login Session Exhaustion (medium 4.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-48467 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-48467 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE), published on 24 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48467 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48467/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48467/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48467
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48467
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-48467

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48467/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.