CVE-2025-27459 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00009.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

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

Link	Providers
https://sick.com/psirt
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices
https://www.endress.com
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1
https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.json
https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.pdf

History

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		CVE-2025-27459
Weaknesses		CWE-257
References		https://sick.com/psirt https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices https://www.endress.com https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1 https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.json https://www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0008.pdf
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SICK AG

Published: 2025-07-03T11:33:53.899Z

Updated: 2025-07-03T13:15:37.506Z

Reserved: 2025-02-26T08:40:02.358Z

Link: CVE-2025-27459

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-03T13:04:14.352Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-03T12:15:24.053

Modified: 2025-07-03T15:13:53.147

Link: CVE-2025-27459

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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