CVE-2025-54860 Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Attackers can cause a denial of service on Cognex In-Sight cameras by exhausting telnet authentication attempts, rendering the management service unreachable.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-54860?
CVE-2025-54860 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cognex In-Sight 2000 series, published on 18 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware expose a telnet-based service on port 23 in order to allow management operations on the device such as firmware upgrades and device reboot requiring an authentication. A wrong management of login failures of the service allows a denial-of-service attack, leaving the telnet service into an unreachable state.
Weakness: CWE-307
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54860?
How do I fix CVE-2025-54860?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-54860 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54860 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9pxp-cvw2-vjgf.