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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2019-13521 json

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-2019-4976

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

Summary

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 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-357 Insufficient UI Warning of Dangerous Operations

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.