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WAGO: Web-Based Management Authentication Vulnerability in WAGO 750-36X and WAGO 750-8XX

VDE-2020-044
Last update
05/14/2025 15:00
Published at
08/31/2021 09:01
Vendor(s)
WAGO GmbH & Co. KG
External ID
VDE-2020-044
CSAF Document

Summary

The Web-Based Management (WBM) of WAGOs programmable logic controller (PLC) is typically used for administration, commissioning and updates.
With special crafted requests it is possible to read and write some special parameters without authentication.
This vulnerability is different to advisory SAV-2020-014 / VDE-2020-028

Impact

This vulnerability allows an attacker who has access to the WBM and knowledge about the directory structure of the WBM to read and/or write a settings-parameter of the devices by sending specifically constructed requests without authentication.
This can lead to malfunction of the application after reboot.

Affected Product(s)

Model no. Product name Affected versions
750-362 750-362 Firmware <=FW07
750-363 750-363 Firmware <=FW07
750-823 750-823 Firmware <=FW07
750-832/xxx-xxx 750-832/xxx-xxx Firmware <=FW07
750-862 750-862 Firmware <=FW07
750-890/xxx-xxx 750-890/xxx-xxx Firmware <=FW07
750-891 750-891 Firmware <=FW07
750-893 750-893 Firmware <=FW07

Vulnerabilities

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Published
09/22/2025 14:58
Weakness
Improper Authentication (CWE-287)
Summary

This vulnerability allows an attacker who has access to the WBM to read and write settings-parameters of the device by sending specifically constructed requests without authentication on multiple WAGO PLCs in firmware versions up to FW07.

References

Mitigation

  • Restrict network access to the device.
  • Do not directly connect the device to the internet.

  • Disable unused TCP/UDP ports.

  • Disable web-based management ports 80/443 after the configuration phase

Remediation

Update the device to the latest FW version.

Revision History

Version Date Summary
1 08/31/2021 09:01 initial revision
2 11/06/2024 12:27 Fix: correct certvde domain, fixed language setting, added self-reference
3 02/12/2025 17:48 Fix: corrected self-reference, fixed version
4 05/14/2025 15:00 Fix: added distribution