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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-33540"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-06-25T18:26:04.688Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-17T03:18:18.324Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:32.228Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-33540"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-33540.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33540"
title: "Phoenix Contact: Undocumented FTP acces in certain AXL F BK and IL BK devices"
summary: "In certain devices of the Phoenix Contact AXL F BK and IL BK product families an undocumented password protected FTP access to the root directory exists."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"AXL F PN TPS XC (1068857)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"},{"version":"AXL F EIP EF (2702782)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"}],"vendor":"Phoenix Contact","product":"AXL F BK","platforms":["HW \u003c 01"]},{"versions":[{"version":"AXL F PN TPS (2403869)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"}],"vendor":"Phoenix Contact","product":"AXL F BK","platforms":["HW \u003c 02"]},{"versions":[{"version":"AXL F EIP (2688394)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"},{"version":"AXL F ETH (2688459)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"},{"version":"AXL F ETH XC (2701949)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.30"},{"version":"AXL F S3 (2701686)","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.40"}],"vendor":"Phoenix Contact","product":"AXL F BK","platforms":["HW \u003c 05"]},{"versions":[{"version":"AXL F PN (2701815) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"AXL F PN XC (2701222) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"AXL F ETH NET2 (2702177) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"AXL F SAS (2701457) all revisions","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Phoenix Contact","product":"AXL F BK"},{"versions":[{"version":"IL PN BK-PAC (2403696) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL PN BK DI8 DO4 2TX-PAC (2703994) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL PN BK DI8 DO4 2SCRJ-PAC (2878379) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL ETH BK DI8 DO4 2TX-XC-PAC (2701388) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL ETH BK DI8 DO4 2TX-PAC (2703981) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL EIP BK DI8 DO4 2TX-PAC (2897758) all revisions","status":"affected"},{"version":"IL S3 BK DI8 DO4 2TX-PAC (2692380) all revisions","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Phoenix Contact","product":"IL"}]

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