patch management

Microsoft has issued a fresh, time‑sensitive reminder: multiple Windows releases are reaching the ends of their servicing windows within the next few months, and the transition clock is now counting down in plain dates — not vague warnings. For millions of Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and...

Microsoft has acknowledged an emergency problem with the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878), after enterprise administrators reported widespread installation failures when the package is delivered through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center...

Microsoft has released an update that resolves a severe clustering regression in Windows Server 2019 introduced by July’s cumulative security rollup, closing a weeks‑long incident that left some failover clusters unstable and virtual machines repeatedly restarting. (support.microsoft.com)...

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...

Siemens’ Simcenter Femap has received a fresh security spotlight: two file‑parsing vulnerabilities that allow local code execution when a user opens specially crafted STP or BMP files, and Siemens has published fixed versions while U.S. authorities have republished the advisory for awareness...

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...

CISA’s August 14 advisory bundle is a wake-up call for every industrial operator: thirty-two separate Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories were published, covering a sweeping range of Siemens and Rockwell products — from PLC simulators and engineering platforms to rugged network gear and...

Siemens’ SIPROTEC 5 family has resurfaced in industry advisories after researchers and the vendor disclosed a vulnerability that allows attackers with physical access to exhaust a device’s memory via its local USB port, causing temporary loss of network responsiveness; the issue is tracked as...

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...

Siemens' COMOS engineering platform is again at the center of vendor and national cybersecurity advisories after an out‑of‑bounds write in a third‑party graphics library — tracked as CVE‑2024‑8894 — was linked to COMOS deployments and republished by authorities, raising fresh questions about...

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...

Rockwell Automation’s Micro800 line of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) has been the subject of a high-severity U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisory republished on August 14, 2025, warning that multiple remotely exploitable vulnerabilities tied to Azure RTOS...

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...

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...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), can fail to install on enterprise endpoints when delivered via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM), producing the error code...

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...

Siemens’ advisory covering third‑party components in SINEC OS landed as a stark reminder that industrial network stacks are only as strong as their weakest third‑party link: dozens of kernel and userland weaknesses, CVEs spanning classic buffer overflows to TOCTOU races, and a vendor‑centric...

Rockwell Automation’s ControlLogix EtherNet/IP communication modules have been publicly flagged for a high-severity vulnerability that, if left unaddressed, can grant remote attackers direct, low-complexity access to a running module’s memory — enabling memory dumps, arbitrary memory...