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Critical VDE-2023-001 64 CVEs

PHOENIX CONTACT: Multiple Vulnerabilities in PLCnext Firmware

Published Feb 14, 2023 · Updated Jun 5, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

A new LTS Firmware release fixes known vulnerabilities in used open-source libraries.
In addition, the following improvements have been implemented:
HMI
- Hardening against DoS attacks. - Hardening against memory leak problems in case of network attacks.
WBM
- Umlauts in the password of the 'User Manager' were not handled correctly. The password rule for upper and lower case was not followed. This could lead to unintentionally weaker passwords.- Hardening of WBM against Cross-Site-Scripting.
User Manager
- In security notifications 'SecurityToken' was always displayed as '0000000' when creating or modifying users.- Hardening of Trust and Identity Stores.

Details

Impact
Please consult the CVE entries listed above.

Mitigation
Phoenix Contact recommends operating network-capable devices in closed networks or protected with a suitable firewall. For detailed information on our recommendations for measures to protect network-capable devices, please refer to our application note:
Measures to protect network-capable devices with Ethernet connection

Remediation
Update to the latest 2023.0.0 LTS Firmware Release.
PHOENIX CONTACT recommends to always use an up-to-date version of the PLCnext Engineer.

Vulnerabilities 64

Revision history

  1. #2

    Fix: quotation mark

  2. #1

    Initial revision.

References