CVE-2026-7849: Phoenix Contact Charx Sec-3000

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Due to improper neutralization of special elements, an unauthenticated remote attacker is able to inject a command into the system configuration which is subsequently executed as root.

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.