CVE-2025-54754: An attacker with adjacent access, without authentication, can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve a hard-coded password embedded in publicly available…

PriorityP345high8CVSS 3.1

AVAACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.23%

13.5th percentile

An attacker with adjacent access, without authentication, can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve a hard-coded password embedded in publicly available software. This password can then be used to decrypt sensitive network traffic, affecting the Cognex device.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cognex	in-sight_2000_series	5.x – 6.5.1	—
cognex	in-sight_7000_series	5.x – 6.5.1	—
cognex	in-sight_8000_series	5.x – 6.5.1	—
cognex	in-sight_9000_series	5.x – 6.5.1	—
cognex	in-sight_explorer	5.x – 6.5.1	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.0HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv4.08.6HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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