CVE-2025-40573: Siemens Scalance LPE9403 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions < V4.0 HF0). Affected devices are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. This could allow a privileged local attacker to restore backups that are outside the backup folder.

Affected products

• Siemens Scalance LPE9403 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2025-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.