CVE-2025-53969 (GCVE-0-2025-53969)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 21:30 – Updated: 2025-09-19 13:10
VLAI?
Title
Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security
Summary
Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware expose a service implementing a proprietary protocol on TCP port 1069 to allow the client-side software, such as the In-Sight Explorer tool, to perform management operations such as changing network settings or modifying users' access to the device.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Diego Giubertoni of Nozomi Networks reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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