CVE-2025-40948: Siemens Ruggedcom Rox MX5000 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 (All versions < V2.17.1), RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 (All versions < V2.17.1). Affected devices do not properly validate input in the web server's JSON-RPC interface. This could allow an authenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system's filesystem with root privileges.

Affected products

• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox MX5000 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox MX5000RE Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1400 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1500 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1501 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1510 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1511 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1512 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1524 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX1536 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)
• Siemens Ruggedcom Rox RX5000 Firmware: before 2.17.1 (fixed in 2.17.1)

Published 2026-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-29.