# Phoenix Contact: File access due to the replacement of a critical file used by the watchdog

CVE record · `CVE-2025-41666`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-41666`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** CERTVDE
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-59](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Technologies:** [PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 1152](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/phoenix-contact-axc-f-1152.md) · [PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 2152](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/phoenix-contact-axc-f-2152.md) · [PHOENIX CONTACT AXC F 3152](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/phoenix-contact-axc-f-3152.md) · [PHOENIX CONTACT BPC 9102S](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/phoenix-contact-bpc-9102s.md) · [PHOENIX CONTACT RFC 4072S](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/phoenix-contact-rfc-4072s.md)
- **Published:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CERTVDE) at 8 Jul 2025, 07:03 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: PHOENIX CONTACT. Product: AXC F 1152.
  - affected: `before 2025.0.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT. Product: AXC F 2152.
  - affected: `before 2025.0.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT. Product: AXC F 3152.
  - affected: `before 2025.0.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT. Product: BPC 9102S.
  - affected: `before 2025.0.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT. Product: RFC 4072S.
  - affected: `before 2025.0.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## 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

- 8.8 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (CERTVDE)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0060, the 48th percentile, on 6 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 8 Jul 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-41666](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-41666)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-41666](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41666)

### References from the CNA

- <https://certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2025-054>

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.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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