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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2025-54818 json

Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

published 2025-09-18 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also EUVD-2025-30229

cvss
8.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware expose

a proprietary protocol on TCP port 1069 to perform management operations such as modifying system properties. The user management functionality handles sensitive data such as registered usernames and passwords over an unencrypted channel, allowing an adjacent attacker to intercept valid credentials to gain access to the device.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-25-261-06 updated cvss 8.0

Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware

  • Cognex In-Sight 2000 series >=5.x, <=6.5.1 Cognex In-Sight 7000 series >=5.x, <=6.5.1 Cognex In-Sight 8000 series >=5.x, <=6.5.1 Cognex In-Sight 9000 series >=5.x, <=6.5.1
    affected
  • Cognex In-Sight Explorer >=5.x, <=6.5.1
    affected: vendor fix

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Cognex In-Sight 2000 series
  • Cognex In-Sight 7000 series
  • Cognex In-Sight 8000 series
  • Cognex In-Sight 9000 series
  • Cognex In-Sight Explorer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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