Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions). Affected devices are vulnerable to path traversal attacks.
This could allow a privileged local attacker to restore backups that are outside the backup folder.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-40573

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.4

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

Affected Products

Vendor: Siemens

Product: SCALANCE LPE9403

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.7% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-11 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40573
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-327438.html

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