CVE-2023-4149 — A vulnerability in the web-based management allows an unauthenticated remote att

A vulnerability in the web-based management allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary system commands and gain full system control. Those commands are executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is located in the user request handling of the web-based man

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the web-based management allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary system commands and gain full system control. Those commands are executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is located in the user request handling of the web-based management.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
WAGO	Industrial Managed Switch (0852	0602) — 0
WAGO	Industrial Managed Switch (0852	0603) — 0
WAGO	Industrial Managed Switch (0852	1605) — 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: 2023-11-21T07:00:25.240Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T07:17:12.285Z

09References

• cert.vde.com — https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2023-037