CVE-2023-37859: Phoenixcontact Wp 6070-Wvps Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4.0.10 the SNMP daemon is running with root privileges allowing a remote attacker with knowledge of the SNMPv2 r/w community string to execute system commands as root.

Affected products

• Phoenixcontact Wp 6070-Wvps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)
• Phoenixcontact Wp 6101-Wxps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)
• Phoenixcontact Wp 6121-Wxps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)
• Phoenixcontact Wp 6156-Whps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)
• Phoenixcontact Wp 6185-Whps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)
• Phoenixcontact Wp 6215-Whps Firmware: before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)

Published 2023-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.