Service interruption via unthrottled HTTP request floods
Published Jul 31, 2025 · Updated Jul 31, 2025
Resource exhaustion in Phoenix Contact AXL F BK and IL BK bus couplers allows remote attackers to interrupt service via HTTP request floods. The port 80 HTTP service accepts a large volume of requests without effective resource limits, overloading the device until its hardware watchdog triggers. No authentication is required; Industrial Ethernet communication remains unavailable until the bus coupler is manually restarted.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Phoenix Contact AXL F BK and IL BK bus couplers allows remote attackers to interrupt service via HTTP request floods. The port 80 HTTP service accepts a large volume of requests without effective resource limits, overloading the device until its hardware watchdog triggers. No authentication is required; Industrial Ethernet communication remains unavailable until the bus coupler is manually restarted.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-2813
- Published
- Jul 31, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 31, 2025
- Vendor
- Phoenix Contact
- Product
- AXL F BK EIP XC
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T0814
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 31, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 31, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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