CVE-2025-40577 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2025-40577
Vulnerability Scoring

4.3
/10
Medium Risk

The vulnerability CVE-2025-40577 could compromise system integrity but typically requires user interaction to be exploited.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: Low
    Exploits can be performed without significant complexity or special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Adjacent_network
    Attack Vector Under Analysis
  • Privileges Required: None
    No privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2025-40577 Details

Status: Analyzed

Last updated: 🕟 04 Jun 2025, 16:33 UTC
Originally published on: 🕙 13 May 2025, 10:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 22 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

productcert@siemens.com

CVSS3 Type

Primary

CVSS3 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVE-2025-40577 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-40577: 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.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2025-40577

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2025-40577 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2025-40577

With low attack complexity and no required privileges, CVE-2025-40577 is an easy target for cybercriminals. Organizations should prioritize immediate mitigation measures to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2025-40577, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2025-40577, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: None
    CVE-2025-40577 has no significant impact on data confidentiality.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2025-40577 poses no threat to data integrity.
  • Availability: Low
    CVE-2025-40577 may slightly degrade system performance without fully affecting service availability.

CVE-2025-40577 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Overread Buffers CAPEC-540 An adversary attacks a target by providing input that causes an application to read beyond the boundary of a defined buffer. This typically occurs when a value influencing where to start or stop reading is set to reflect positions outside of the valid memory location of the buffer. This type of attack may result in exposure of sensitive information, a system crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_lpe9403_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_lpe9403_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:h:siemens:scalance_lpe9403:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:h:siemens:scalance_lpe9403:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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