CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-40575

Use of Uninitialized Variable

Published: May 13, 2025 | Modified: May 30, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions). Affected devices do not properly validate incoming Profinet packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted malicious packet, which leads to a crash of the dcpd process.

Weakness

The code uses a variable that has not been initialized, leading to unpredictable or unintended results.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Scalance_lpe9403_firmware Siemens - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References