A maliciously crafted program file opened by an unsuspecting user of Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Software version 16.00.00 and ear…

published 2020-01-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-4974

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 5.6%; EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits: 0; none known

A maliciously crafted program file opened by an unsuspecting user of Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Software version 16.00.00 and earlier may result in the limited exposure of information related to the targeted workstation. Rockwell Automation has released version 16.00.01 of Arena Simulation Software to address the reported vulnerabilities.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-19-213-05 updated 2019-09-19 cvss 7.8

Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Software (Update B)

Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Software for Manufacturing Cat. 9502-Ax <= 16.00.00
affected: mitigation “Rockwell Automation has released Version 16.00.01 of Arena Simulation Software to address the reported vulnerabilities.” rockwellautomation.custhelp.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Rockwell Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Software

Classification

Weakness

CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type

References

us-cert.gov /ics/advisories/icsa-19-213-05
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
zerodayinitiative.com /advisories/ZDI-19-802/
third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-13519
NVD CVE-2019-13519

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Summary