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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-16670 json

An issue was discovered on Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M 3.6.6 Build 16102415, IE-SW-VL08MT 3.5.2 Build 16102415, and IE-SW-PL10M 3.3.16 Build 16…

published 2019-12-06 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-7232

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered on Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M 3.6.6 Build 16102415, IE-SW-VL08MT 3.5.2 Build 16102415, and IE-SW-PL10M 3.3.16 Build 16102416 devices. The Authentication mechanism has no brute-force prevention.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-19-339-02 updated cvss 9.8

Weidmueller Industrial Ethernet Switches

  • Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08M-6TX-2SC firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08M-6TX-2SCS firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08M-6TX-2ST firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08M-8TX firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08MT-6TX-2SC firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08MT-6TX-2SCS firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416
    +34 more products
    Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08MT-6TX-2ST firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL08MT-8TX firmware <= 3.3.8 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL09M-5GC-4GT firmware <= 3.3.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL09MT-5GC-4GT firmware <= 3.3.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL10M-1GT-2GS-7TX firmware <= 3.3.16 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL10M-3GT-7TX firmware <= 3.3.16 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL10MT-1GT-2GS-7TX firmware <= 3.3.16 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL10MT-3GT-7TX firmware <= 3.3.16 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16M-14TX-2SC firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16M-14TX-2ST firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16M-16TX firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16MT-14TX-2SC firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16MT-14TX-2ST firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL16MT-16TX firmware <= 3.4.2 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18M-2GC-16TX firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18M-2GC14TX2SC firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18M-2GC14TX2SCS firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18M-2GC14TX2ST firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18MT-2GC-16TX firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18MT-2GC14TX2SC firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18MT-2GC14TX2SCS firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-PL18MT-2GC14TX2ST firmware <= 3.4.4 Build 16102416 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-3TX-2SC firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-3TX-2ST firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M-5TX firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05MT-3TX-2SC firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05MT-3TX-2ST firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05MT-5TX firmware <= 3.6.6 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-5TX-1SC-2SCS firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-5TX-3SC firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-6TX-2SC firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-6TX-2SCS firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-6TX-2ST firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415 Weidmueller IE-SW-VL08MT-8TX firmware <= 3.5.2 Build 16102415
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Solution for vulnerabilities, valid for switch series IE-SW-VL05M and IE-SW-VL08MT” cert.vde.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.