CVE-2025-54754

HIGH

Cognex In-Sight 2000/7000/8000/9000 series and Explorer >=5.x <6.5.1 - Unauthenticated Hard-coded Password Exposure

Title source: llm

Description

An attacker with adjacent access, without authentication, can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve a hard-coded password embedded in publicly available software. This password can then be used to decrypt sensitive network traffic, affecting the Cognex device.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-261-06

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0

EPSS 0.0023

EPSS Percentile 13.4%

Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-259

Status published

Products (5)

Cognex/In-Sight 2000 series 5.x - 6.5.1

Cognex/In-Sight 7000 series 5.x - 6.5.1

Cognex/In-Sight 8000 series 5.x - 6.5.1

Cognex/In-Sight 9000 series 5.x - 6.5.1

Cognex/In-Sight Explorer 5.x - 6.5.1

Published Sep 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026