FactoryTalk® Updater Authentication Bypass

published 2024-11-12 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-33359

cvss: 9.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits: 0; none known

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the affected product. The vulnerability exists due to shared secrets across accounts and could allow a threat actor to impersonate a user if the threat actor is able to enumerate additional information required during authentication.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-24-319-14 updated 2024-11-18 cvss 9.1

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Updater (Update A)

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Updater - Agent <4.20.00 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Updater - Client <4.20.00 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Updater - Web Client >=4.00.00, <4.20.00
affected: fixed in V4.20.00, mitigation “Rockwell Automation recommends users follow the following mitigations:” 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: total
Assessed: 23 mo ago (2024-11-13)

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	9.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	3.1	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CNA	4.0	9.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Updater
rockwellautomation factorytalk_updater

Classification

Weakness

CWE-922 Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

References

rockwellautomation.com /en-us/trust-center/security-advisories/advisory.SD1710.html

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-10943
NVD CVE-2024-10943

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Summary