CVE-2025-46352Consilium Safety CS5000 Fire Panel Use of Hard-coded Credentials
- 9.3CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.73%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 45% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The CS5000 Fire Panel is vulnerable due to a hard-coded password that runs on a VNC server and is visible as a string in the binary responsible for running VNC. This password cannot be altered, allowing anyone with knowledge of it to gain remote access to the panel. Such access could enable an attacker to operate the panel remotely, potentially putting the fire panel into a non-functional state and causing serious safety issues.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.73% · top 45% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
Affected products
Consilium Safety · CS5000 Fire Panel
- affected All versions
What to do
Solution: Users wanting enhanced security features are advised to upgrade to Consilium Safety's newer line of fire panels. Specifically, products manufactured after July 1, 2024, incorporate more secure-by-design principles. More product safety information can be found on Consilium Safety's support webpage https://www.consiliumsafety.com/en/support/ .
Workaround: Consilium Safety is aware of these vulnerabilities. Currently, no fixes are planned for the CS5000 Fire Panel. Users wanting enhanced security features are advised to upgrade to Consilium Safety's newer line of fire panels. Specifically, products manufactured after July 1, 2024, incorporate more secure-by-design principles. Users of the CS5000 Fire Panel are recommended to implement compensating countermeasures, such as physical security and access control restrictions for dedicated personnel. More product safety information can be found on Consilium Safety's support webpage https://www.consiliumsafety.com/en/support/ .
References
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-2025-16439 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-46352)Record last updated .