# OS command injection in Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 and others

CVE record · `CVE-2025-40949`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-40949`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.9 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** siemens
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-78](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)
- **Tags:** [Command injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/command-injection.md)
- **Technologies:** [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-mx5000.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-mx5000re.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1400.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1500.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1501.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1510.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1511.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1512.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1524.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx1536.md) · [Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/siemens-ruggedcom-rox-rx5000.md)
- **Published:** 12 May 2026
- **Updated:** 13 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: siemens) at 12 May 2026, 08:20 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Siemens. Product: RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000.
  - affected: `before V2.17.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.1 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (siemens)
- 8.9 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`, from CNA (siemens) (used for this record)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0067, the 52nd percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-40949](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40949)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-40949](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40949)

### References from the CNA

- <https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-081142.html>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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