CVE-2021-33528

HIGH

Weidmueller Industrial WLAN - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the iw_console functionality. A specially crafted menu selection string can cause an escape from the restricted console, resulting in system access as the root user. An attacker can send commands while authenticated as a low privilege user to trigger this vulnerability.

References (1)

[Third Party Advisory] https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0070

EPSS Percentile 71.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-710

Status published

Affected Products (8)

weidmueller/ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-eu_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-eu_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-us_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-us_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-eu_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-eu_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-us_firmware < 1.16.18

weidmueller/ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-us_firmware < 1.16.18

Timeline

Published Jun 25, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026