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High ICSA-25-148-03 2 CVEs

Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel (Update A)

Published May 29, 2025 · Updated Dec 4, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain high-level access to and remotely operate the device, potentially putting it into a non-functional state.

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8

    Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

    The CS5000 Fire Panel is vulnerable due to a default account that exists on the panel. Even though it is possible to change this by SSHing into the device, it has remained unchanged on every installed system observed. This account is not root but holds high-l…

  • Critical 9.8

    Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel Use of Hard-coded Credentials

    The CS5000 Fire Panel is vulnerable due to a hard-coded password that runs on a VNC server and is visible as a string in the binary responsible for running VNC. This password cannot be altered, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to gain remote access to the…

Revision history

  1. #2

    Update A - Changed CVSS vectors from AV:N to AV:L and changed the scores to reflect this. Updated the versions affected and additional mitigation details were added. Consilium software version R1.17.1 is now available for the CS5000 Fire Panel.

  2. #1

    Initial Publication

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