Traffic decryption via publicly exposed hard-coded password
Published Sep 18, 2025 · Updated Sep 18, 2025
Hard-coded credentials in Cognex In-Sight products through 6.5.1 allow attackers to decrypt sensitive network traffic. A reusable password embedded in publicly downloadable In-Sight Explorer software protects communications with affected camera firmware. Exploitation requires adjacent network access, no authentication, passive user interaction, and traffic captured from a Cognex device.
Summary
What happened
Hard-coded credentials in Cognex In-Sight products through 6.5.1 allow attackers to decrypt sensitive network traffic. A reusable password embedded in publicly downloadable In-Sight Explorer software protects communications with affected camera firmware. Exploitation requires adjacent network access, no authentication, passive user interaction, and traffic captured from a Cognex device.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-54754
- Published
- Sep 18, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Cognex
- Product
- In-Sight 2000 Series
- Classifications
- CWE-259, T1040
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 18, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.x <=6.5.1
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