Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk System Services Vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service Attack

published 2023-06-13 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-34104

cvss: 5.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits: 0; none known

Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk System Services does not verify that a backup configuration archive is password protected.

Improper authorization in FTSSBackupRestore.exe may lead to the loading of malicious configuration archives. This vulnerability may allow a local, authenticated non-admin user to craft a malicious backup archive, without password protection, that will be loaded by FactoryTalk System Services as a valid backup when a restore procedure takes places. User interaction is required for this vulnerability to be successfully exploited.

Vendor advisories

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cisa ICSA-23-164-02 updated 2023-06-13 cvss 5.9

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Policy Manager v6.11.0 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk System Services v6.11.0
affected: fixed in v6.30.00 compatibility.rockwellautomation.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: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2025-01-02)

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	5.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk System Services

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

rockwellautomation.custhelp.com /app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1139683
permissions-required, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-2638
NVD CVE-2023-2638

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Summary