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The Colonial Pipeline blackout of May 2021 remains a cautionary touchstone: ransomware that began in corporate IT cascaded into physical shortages and public alarm, a stark demonstration that operational technology (OT) insecurity costs more than data — it can disrupt energy, water, food and...

Siemens’ RUGGEDCOM APE1808 appliances carry high‑risk management‑plane vulnerabilities that can let an authenticated administrator—or an attacker who gains elevated credentials—execute arbitrary operating‑system commands and escalate local service privileges, creating a significant threat to...

A critical local privilege‑escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint (versions 14.00 and prior) that allows an attacker with local access to escalate to SYSTEM by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior — the issue is tracked as CVE‑2025‑7973 and has been...

Siemens’ RUGGEDCOM ROX II series is the subject of a newly spotlighted vulnerability that raises immediate operational concerns for industrial network operators: an unrestricted file upload condition in the device web interface can allow a high‑privilege, authenticated user to write arbitrary...

Siemens' widely deployed use of Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime has again drawn scrutiny after a local privilege-escalation flaw (CVE-2025-47809) was published that can let an unprivileged user gain elevated access immediately after an unprivileged installation when the CodeMeter Control Center...

A recently republished CISA advisory warns that Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Linx contains a serious improper access control flaw that—when triggered by setting Node.js’ process.env.NODE_ENV to "development"—can disable FTSP token validation and allow an attacker to create, update, or...

A newly republished CISA advisory warns that Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000 Logix Designer contains an improper input validation flaw that can be triggered via environment variables, allowing an attacker with local network access to crash the engineering software—and in some cases plausibly...

Rockwell Automation has issued—and CISA has republished—an advisory warning that specific 1756-series communication modules can enter a Major Non‑Recoverable fault or crash when presented with malformed or concurrent Forward Close messages, creating a practical denial‑of‑service risk for...

A high-severity privilege-escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint that allows a local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior; the issue (CVE-2025-7973) carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and affects FactoryTalk...

Siemens has republished an advisory confirming that several POWER METER models in the SICAM Q100 and Q200 families store SMTP credentials in cleartext — a design flaw that allows an authenticated local user to extract email account passwords from device storage or exported configuration files...

A local information-disclosure flaw in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Action Manager allows unauthenticated local clients to receive a reusable API token broadcast over a WebSocket, creating a pathway for attackers with local access to intercept credentials and manipulate the product’s...

Siemens has disclosed a broad, high-severity set of vulnerabilities affecting the SINEC family—spanning SINEC NMS, SINEC INS and devices running SINEC OS—and vendors and operators must treat these as urgent operational risks: multiple advisories published by Siemens ProductCERT show...

Rockwell’s advisory republication this week exposes a subtle but serious weakness in FactoryTalk Linx that—if present in your environment—lets an attacker bypass FTSP token validation and perform privileged driver management actions, and CISA is clear: update to FactoryTalk Linx v6.50 as the...

Siemens ProductCERT has confirmed a widespread DLL-hijacking flaw in the Siemens Web Installer used by its Online Software Delivery (OSD) mechanism — tracked as CVE‑2025‑30033 — that can allow arbitrary code execution during installation, carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5, and affects dozens...

AVEVA's PI Integrator for Business Analytics has been the subject of a coordinated security disclosure that identifies two authenticated, yet remotely exploitable, vulnerabilities which could permit file upload of dangerous types and the disclosure of sensitive output data — issues that demand...

Johnson Controls’ iSTAR Ultra family of door controllers contains a cluster of high‑impact vulnerabilities that — if left unpatched — can give remote attackers a path to root access, firmware modification, and local console takeover, creating a direct route from network compromise to physical...

A sweeping wave of cybersecurity advisories has surged through the industrial sector as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled ten new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 7, 2025. This release zeroes in on a wide spectrum of vulnerabilities...

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Delta Electronics’ DIAView industrial automation management system has put critical infrastructure sectors on high alert, as experts warn of the significant risk posed by remotely exploitable path traversal flaws that could allow attackers to access or alter...

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Packet Power’s EMX and EG products, exposing critical infrastructure worldwide to the risk of unauthorized remote access and control. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-8284, allows attackers to bypass authentication entirely, offering a...

CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) has released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on August 5, 2025. These advisories provide essential updates regarding cybersecurity issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits related to ICS products. Here are the two advisories...