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WAGO: Switches affected by year 2k38 problem

VDE-2025-020
Last update
02.06.2025 08:00
Published at
02.06.2025 08:00
Vendor(s)
WAGO GmbH & Co. KG
External ID
VDE-2025-020
CSAF Document

Summary

The Year 2038 Problem affects systems using a 32-bit integer to represent time as the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970. On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, the time value will exceed the maximum for a 32-bit integer, causing an overflow and resetting it to a negative number.

Impact

This leads to a reset of the system time and effects the timestamps of the system logs.

Affected Product(s)

Model no. Product name Affected versions
WAGO Fully Managed Switches 0852-0303 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Fully Managed Switches 0852-1305 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Fully Managed Switches 0852-1305/0000-0001 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Fully Managed Switches 0852-1505 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Fully Managed Switches 0852-1505/0000-0001 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1812 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1812/0010-0000 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1813 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1813/0000-0001 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1813/0010-0000 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1813/0010-0001 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1816 Firmware vers:all/*
WAGO Lean Managed Switches 0852-1816/0010-0000 Firmware vers:all/*

Vulnerabilities

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Published
22.09.2025 14:57
Weakness
Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)
Summary

A low privileged attacker can set the date of the devices to the 19th of January 2038 an therefore exceed the 32-Bit time limit. This causes the date of the switch to be set back to January 1st, 1970.

References

Revision History

Version Date Summary
1 02.06.2025 08:00 Initial release.