CVE-2025-0867: sick ag sick meac300 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-0867 is a critical (CVSS 9.9) Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in sick ag sick meac300. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 14-02-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 21-02-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The standard user uses the run as function to start the MEAC applications with administrative privileges. To ensure that the system can startup on its own, the credentials of the administrator were stored. Consequently, the EPC2 user can execute any command with administrative privileges. This allows a privilege escalation to the administrative level.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- NVDNIST9.9CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.63%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
49%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.63% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Sick ag1 product
- sick meac300< 4.0.54.21
1 vendor · 1 product
References
6 links- sick.com/psirtX SICK PSIRT Website
- cdn.sick.com/media/docs/1/11/411/Special_information_CYBERSECURITY_BY_SICK_en_IM0084411.PDFX SICK Operating Guidelines
- www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practicesX ICS CERT Recommended Practices On Industrial Security
- www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1X CVSS V3.1 Calculator
- www.sick.com/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/sca-2025-0001.pdfVendor Advisory