CVE-2023-29463
Pavilion8 Security Misconfiguration Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Rockwell
Description
The JMX Console within the Rockwell Automation Pavilion8 is exposed to application users and does not require authentication. If exploited, a malicious user could potentially retrieve other application users’ session data and or log users out of their session.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| RockwellCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Rockwell Automation · Pavilion8
- affected <5.20
What to do
Solution: Risk Mitigation & User Action Customers using the affected software are encouraged to apply the risk mitigations, if possible. Additionally, we encourage customers to implement our suggested security best practices to minimize the risk of vulnerability. * Update to v5.20 * QA43240 - Recommended Security Guidelines from Rockwell Automation https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1085012 If customers are unable to update to v5.20, please follow the instructions below to disable the vulnerability in v5.17. * Open the web.xml file in your Pavilion8® installation folder set during installation and go to Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF, by default this would be under C:\Pavilion\Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF. * Search for the text jmx-console-action-handler and delete the below lines from web.xml file: <servlet> <servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.pav.jboss.jmx.HtmlAdaptorServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> * Save the changes and close the file. * Restart Pavilion8® Console Service. * Logout and log back into the console and navigate to the URL http:// <FQDN>/jmx-console to confirm you are getting the error message HTTP Status 404 – Not Found. Note: <FQDN> is your fully qualified domain name used for the Console login.
References (1)
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)
- 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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