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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2021-22665 json

Rockwell Automation DriveTools SP v5.13 and below and Drives AOP v4.12 and below both contain a vulnerability that a local attacker with li…

published 2021-03-18 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-9801

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Rockwell Automation DriveTools SP v5.13 and below and Drives AOP v4.12 and below both contain a vulnerability that a local attacker with limited privileges may be able to exploit resulting in privilege escalation and complete control of the system.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-21-042-02 updated cvss 7.5

Rockwell Automation DriveTools SP and Drives AOP

  • Rockwell Automation DriveExecutive <=5.13 Rockwell Automation Drives AOP <=4.12
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “DriveTools SP: v5.14.41 or later” 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

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Rockwell Automation DriveTools SP and Drives AOP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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.