Forescout Research Successfully Ported PLC Pre-Authentication RCE Vulnerability Exploit to Another Model Using Claude

Forescout Research Successfully Ported PLC Pre-Authentication RCE Vulnerability Exploit to Another Model Using Claude

2026-09-02 07:48View Original

According to reports, Forescout Research - Vedere Labs leveraged Anthropic's Claude model to port a pre-authenticated remote code execution (RCE) exploit targeting WAGO programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from one PLC model to another, successfully executing attacker-provided ARM shellcode on real hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Nucleus FTP server when handling USER commands.

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