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Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

CVE-2025-54860

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware expose a telnet-based service on port 23 in order to allow management operations on the device such as firmware upgrades and device reboot requiring an authentication. A wrong management of login failures of the service allows a denial-of-service attack, leaving the telnet service into an unreachable state.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

The software does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within in a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published