THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-5814
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-5814

Rslogix 500 Professional Edition vulnerability

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in Rockwell Automation RSLogix Micro Starter Lite, RSLogix Micro Developer, RSLogix 500 Starter Edition, RSLogix 500 Standard Edition, and RSLogix 500 Professional Edition allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RSS project file.
Affected vendor
Rockwellautomation
Affected product
Rslogix 500 Professional Edition
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2016-09-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-5814

  • Confirm whether Rockwellautomation Rslogix 500 Professional Edition is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-5814.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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