CVE-2023-37859 — In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4

In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4.0.10 the SNMP daemon is running with root privileges allowing a remote attacker with knowledge of the SNMPv2 r/w community string to execute system commands as root.

01What is this vulnerability?

In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4.0.10 the SNMP daemon is running with root privileges allowing a remote attacker with knowledge of the SNMPv2 r/w community string to execute system commands as root.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6070	WVPS — 0
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6101	WXPS — 0
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6121	WXPS — 0
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6156	WHPS — 0
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6185	WHPS — 0
PHOENIX CONTACT	WP 6215	WHPS — 0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-08-09T06:36:07.644Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T17:23:27.576Z

09References

• cert.vde.com — https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2023-018/