THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-19282
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-19282

Powerflex 525 Ac Drives Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
5.6%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Rockwell Automation PowerFlex 525 AC Drives 5.001 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) network stack. The vulnerability allows the attacker to crash the CIP in a way that it does not accept new connections, but keeps the current connections active, which can prevent legitimate users from recovering control.
Affected vendor
Rockwellautomation
Affected product
Powerflex 525 Ac Drives Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2019-04-04

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-19282

  • Confirm whether Rockwellautomation Powerflex 525 Ac Drives Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-19282.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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