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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-2005 json

AutomationDirect C-more EA9 HMI Cleartext Transmission

published 2022-08-31 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34311

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

AutomationDirect C-more EA9 HTTP webserver uses an insecure mechanism to transport credentials from client to web server, which may allow an attacker to obtain the login credentials and login as a valid user. This issue affects: AutomationDirect C-more EA9 EA9-T6CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T6CL-R versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T7CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T7CL-R versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T8CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T10CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T10WCL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T12CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-T15CL versions prior to 6.73; EA9-RHMI versions prior to 6.73; EA9-PGMSW versions prior to 6.73;

Patch / fix

  • AutomationDirect C-more EA9 6.73

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-22-167-01 updated cvss 7.5

AutomationDirect C-More EA9 HMI

  • Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-PGMSW <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-RHMI <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T6CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T6CL-R <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T7CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T7CL-R <6.73
    +6 more products
    Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T8CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T10CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T10WCL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T12CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T15CL <6.73 Automation Direct C-more EA9 EA9-T15CL-R <6.73
    affected: mitigation “AutomationDirect recommends users upgrade to firmware Version 6.73 or later, which supports TLS security options for the webserver.” automationdirect.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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • AutomationDirect C-more EA9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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.