CVE-2025-54860 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-54860

Cognex In-Sight Explorer and In-Sight Camera Firmware Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Diego Giubertoni of Nozomi Networks reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

In-Sight 2000 series, In-Sight 7000 series, In-Sight 8000 series, In-Sight 9000 series, In-Sight Explorer
Vulnerable Versions:
5.x

Timeline

Official Publish: September 18th, 2025
Last Modified: September 19th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)