Privilege escalation in Mennekes Amtron

CVE-2026-8980

The Mennekes Amtron series (firmware versions ≤ 5.22.3) is vulnerable to privilege escalation. An authenticated low-privileged user can change the passwords of the admin (operator) and manufacturer accounts via crafted POST requests.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.001 (17.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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