An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the iocheckd service ‘I/O-Check’ function of the WAGO PFC 200 Firmware version 03.…

published 2020-03-11 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-14776

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits: 0; none known

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the iocheckd service ‘I/O-Check’ function of the WAGO PFC 200 Firmware version 03.02.02(14). An attacker can send specially crafted packet at 0x1ea48 to the extracted hostname value from the xml file that is used as an argument to /etc/config-tools/config_interfaces interface=X1 state=enabled ip-address=<contents of ip node> using sprintf().

Exploit prediction

1.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

talosintelligence.com https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0962 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Wago WAGO PFC200

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0962
exploit, technical-description, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-5171
NVD CVE-2019-5171

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Summary