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🛡️ CVE-2025-40583 — scalance-lpe9403-firmware

🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-319 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions with SINEMA Remote Connect Edge Client installed). Affected devices do transmit sensitive information in cleartext.

This could allow a privileged local attacker to retrieve this sensitive information.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-40583 is classified as CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. Sensitive data crosses the network without encryption and can be read or altered in transit.

Affected software

CVE-2025-40583 is recorded against 1 package.

  • scalance-lpe9403-firmware

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert-portal.siemens.com

Other advisories for this package

scalance-lpe9403-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
scalance-lpe9403-firmware

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