CVE-2025-1059

High

Published: 13 February 2025

Published

13 February 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0067 71.4th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-1059 is a high-severity Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) vulnerability in Schneider Electric (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 28.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SC-6 (Resource Availability).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection good match

prevent

Directly protects the webserver against denial-of-service from malicious packets causing resource exhaustion without limits or throttling.

SC-6 Resource Availability good match

prevent

Ensures resource availability by implementing throttling and limits on resource allocation to prevent depletion from unauthenticated packet floods to the webserver.

SI-9 Information Input Restrictions good match

prevent

Enforces rate limits and restrictions on information inputs to the webserver, mitigating the CWE-770 vulnerability from unlimited malicious packets.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

attack.mitre.org →

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.

attack.mitre.org →

Why these techniques?

Direct unauthenticated remote exploitation of the webserver resource exhaustion flaw produces application/system DoS; maps to public-facing app exploitation and endpoint DoS via software exploitation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability exists that could cause communications to stop when malicious packets are sent to the webserver of the device.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-1059 is a CWE-770 vulnerability involving allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the webserver of Schneider Electric devices. Published on 2025-02-13, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). The flaw enables communications to stop on the affected device when malicious packets are sent to its webserver.

A remote, unauthenticated attacker with network access to the device can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation results in a denial-of-service condition, disrupting device communications without impacting confidentiality or integrity.

Mitigation details are provided in Schneider Electric's Security and Safety Notice SEVD-2025-042-01, accessible at https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_Doc_Ref=sevd-2025-042-01&p_enDocType=Security+and+Safety+Notice&p_File_Name=SEVD-2025-042-01.pdf.