CVE-2018-25112 (GCVE-0-2018-25112)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-04 09:37
Modified
2025-06-04 13:16
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
An unauthenticated remote attacker may use an uncontrolled resource consumption in the IEC 61131 program of the affected products by creating large amounts of network traffic that needs to be handled by the ILC. This results in a Denial-of-Service of the device.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PHOENIX CONTACT ILC 131 Version: vers:all/*
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