Description
The VNC application stores its passwords encrypted within the registry but uses DES for encryption. As DES is broken, the original passwords can be recovered.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| SICK AGCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
Endress+Hauser · Endress+Hauser MEAC300-FNADE4
- affected vers:all/*
What to do
Workaround: Please make sure that you apply general security practices when operating the MEAC300-FNADE4. The following General Security Practices could mitigate the associated security risk.
References (6)
- https://www.endress.com (opens in a new tab)x_Endress+Hauser
- https://sick.com/psirt (opens in a new tab)x_SICK PSIRT Security Advisoriesvendor-advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices (opens in a new tab)x_ICS-CERT recommended practices on Industrial Security
- https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1 (opens in a new tab)x_CVSS v3.1 Calculator
- https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.json (opens in a new tab)x_The canonical URL.
- https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.pdf (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-27459)Record last updated .