CVE-2021-34582Phoenix Contact: FL MGUARD XSS through web-based management and REST API
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 78% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Phoenix Contact FL MGUARD 1102 and 1105 in Versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 a user with high privileges can inject HTML code (XSS) through web-based management or the REST API with a manipulated certificate file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By CERTVDE
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERTVDECNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 78% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
- affected 1.4.0 – < FL MGUARD 1102 (No. 1153079)*
- affected 1.4.0 – < FL MGUARD 1105 (No. 1153078)*
What to do
Solution: PHOENIX CONTACT recomments to upgrade to firmware version 1.5.1 (or any later version).
Workaround: If an untrusted user may have exploited the vulnerability, it is recommended to revoke access for that user, and to re-upload the certificates on the Basic settings > LDAP and Logs > Remote logging pages through the REST API (i.e., without viewing these pages in the web-based management).
References
References1
- https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2021-046/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-21232 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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