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high 7.5

CVE-2019-5637 json

Beckhoff TwinCAT Profinet Driver Divide-by-Zero Denial of Service

published 2019-11-21 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-15212

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When Beckhoff TwinCAT is configured to use the Profinet driver, a denial of service of the controller could be reached by sending a malformed UDP packet to the device. This issue affects TwinCAT 2 version 2304 (and prior) and TwinCAT 3.1 version 4204.0 (and prior).

Exploit prediction

1.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • blog.rapid7.com https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/10/08/r7-2019-32-denial-of-service-vulnerabilities-in-beckhoff-twincat-plc-environment-fixed/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Beckhoff TwinCAT 2
  • Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.1

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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