CVE-2026-44093: Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3000

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the init-script for user-applications allows a low-privileged local user to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full system compromise.

Affected products

• Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3000: from 1.0.0, before 1.9.1 (fixed in 1.9.1)
• Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3050: from 1.0.0, before 1.9.1 (fixed in 1.9.1)
• Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3100: from 1.0.0, before 1.9.1 (fixed in 1.9.1)
• Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3150: from 1.0.0, before 1.9.1 (fixed in 1.9.1)

Published 2026-07-30. Last modified 2026-07-30.