Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24002

Medium

Published: 08 July 2025

Published
08 July 2025
Modified
11 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0035 58.0th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24002 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Phoenixcontact Charx Sec-3000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An unauthenticated remote attacker can use MQTT messages to crash a service on charging stations complying with German Calibration Law, resulting in a temporary denial-of-service for these stations until they got restarted by the watchdog.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

phoenixcontact
charx sec-3000 firmware
≤ 1.6.5
phoenixcontact
charx sec-3050 firmware
≤ 1.6.5
phoenixcontact
charx sec-3100 firmware
≤ 1.6.5
phoenixcontact
charx sec-3150 firmware
≤ 1.6.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References