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high 7.5

CVE-2023-2778 json

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Transaction Manager Vulnerable to Denial-Of-Service

published 2023-06-13 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-34236

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Transaction Manager. This vulnerability can be exploited by sending a modified packet to port 400. If exploited, the application could potentially crash or experience a high CPU or memory usage condition, causing intermittent application functionality issues. The application would need to be restarted to recover from the DoS.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-23-164-04 updated cvss 7.5

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Transaction Manager

  • Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Transaction Manager <= 13.10
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Rockwell Automation encourages affected software users to install one of the following security patches to address the associated risk:” 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% 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:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Transaction Manager

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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