Vulnerabilites related to Rockwell Automation - FactoryTalk® ViewPoint
CVE-2025-7973 (GCVE-0-2025-7973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-14 13:52
Modified
2025-08-14 15:05
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VLAI Severity ?
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CWE
- CWE-268 - Privilege Chaining
Summary
A security issue exists in FactoryTalk ViewPoint version 14.0 or below due to improper handling of MSI repair operations. During a repair, attackers can hijack the cscript.exe console window, which runs with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to spawn an elevated command prompt, enabling full privilege escalation.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Rockwell Automation | FactoryTalk® ViewPoint |
Version: Version 14.00 or below |
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