Rockwell Automation Incorrect Privileges and Path Traversal Vulnerability in Pavilion8®

Description

The Rockwell Automation affected product contains a vulnerability that allows a threat actor to view sensitive information and change settings. The vulnerability exists due to having an incorrect privilege matrix that allows users to have access to functions they should not.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (7 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

• CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Rockwell Automation · Pavilion8®

  • affected <V5.20

What to do

Solution: Affected Product         Affected Software Version         Corrected in Software Version         Pavilion8®                   <V5.20         V6.0 and later     Mitigations and Workarounds Customers using the affected software, who are not able to upgrade to one of the corrected versions, are encouraged to apply security best practices, where possible.     * Security Best Practices https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1085012/loc/en_US#__highlight

References (1)

• https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/trust-center/security-advisories/advisory.SD1695.html (opens in a new tab)

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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 12 Sept 2024, 20:49 UTC.