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Critical VDE-2024-038 2 CVEs

Pepperl+Fuchs: Anonymous FTP server and Telnet access allows information disclosure and manipulation

Published Jul 10, 2024 · Updated Aug 27, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

Critical vulnerabilities has been discovered in the product, mainly caused by ananonymous FTP server and Telnet access.The impact of the vulnerabilities on the affected device may result in

Information disclosure
Denial of service
Device manipulation

Details

Impact
Pepperl+Fuchs analyzed and identified affected devices.
An attacker can

read out images, serial number of the device, version numbers of firmware and OS log-files, configuration
stop processes,
read out, delete and change data.

Mitigation
An external protective measure is required.

Minimize network exposure for affected products and ensure that they are not accessible via the Internet.
Isolate affected products from the corporate network.
If remote access is required, use secure methods such as virtual private networks (VPNs).

Vulnerabilities 2

Revision history

  1. #1.1.0

    Update: CWE from CVE-2024-6421, Revision History

  2. #1.0.0

    Initial revision.

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