Medium severity · published Jul 24, 2025
CVE-2025-7745
Modbus TCP buffer overread
5.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Buffer Over-read vulnerability in ABB AC500 V2.This issue affects AC500 V2: through 2.5.2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AV
AC500 V2 · ABB
through 2.5.2 · source: vendor
In the news
VulnerabilityMedium
ABB AC500 V2
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Summary
ABB became aware of vulnerabilities in AC500 V2 listed as affected in the advisory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access fragments of Modbus telegrams that have been sent earlier by that PLC
The following versions of ABB AC500 V2 are affected:
AC500 V2 <=2.5.2, 2.5.3
CVSS
Vendor
Equipment
Vulnerabilities
v3 5.8
ABB
ABB AC500 V2
Buffer Over-read
Background
Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater
Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide
Company Headquarters Location: Switzerland
Vulnerabilities
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CVE-2025-7745
Sending unsupported function codes to the AC500 V2 Modbus server might result in invalid responses. Fragments of previous responses might be added to the end of the response.
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Affected Products
ABB AC500 V2
Vendor: ABB
Product Version: ABB AC500 V2 <=2.5.2
Product Status: fixed, known_affected
Remediations
Vendor fix The vulnerabilities have been resolved in the following product versions: AC500 V2 firmware version 2.5.3 (released in 2016) and later
Relevant CWE: CWE-126 Buffer Over-read
Metrics
CVSS Version
Base Score
Base Severity
Vector String
3.1
5.8
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Acknowledgments
Reid Wightman of Dragos. Inc report...
May 26, 2026·CISA Advisories
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7745
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-7745
search.abb.com
https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=3ADR011432&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
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