Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform Elevated Privileges Vulnerability Through Web Service Functionality

published 2024-02-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-19521

cvss: 9.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits: 0; none known

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform (FTSP). If exploited, a malicious user with basic user group privileges could potentially sign into the software and receive FTSP Administrator Group privileges. A threat actor could potentially read and modify sensitive data, delete data and render the FTSP system unavailable.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

rockwellautomation factorytalk_services_platform 2.74

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-24-046-16 updated 2024-02-15 cvss 9.0

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Service Platform

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Service Platform <v2.74
affected: mitigation “For more information about this issue, please see the advisory on the Rockwell Automation security page” 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: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-02-22)

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform
rockwellautomation factorytalk_services_platform

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

rockwellautomation.com /en-us/support/advisory.SD1662.html
broken-link, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-21915
NVD CVE-2024-21915

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Summary