CVE-2025-40573

MEDIUM

Siemens Scalance Lpe9403 Firmware - Path Traversal

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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions < V4.0 HF0). Affected devices are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. This could allow a privileged local attacker to restore backups that are outside the backup folder.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-327438.html

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 31.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-22 CWE-35

Status published

Products (1)

siemens/scalance_lpe9403_firmware

Published May 13, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026