ControlLogix® Ethernet Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Date: 8/14/2025 

Last Updated: 8/14/2025 
Revision Number: 1.0 
CVSS Score: 9.8/10 

The security of our products is important to us as your chosen industrial automation supplier. This anomaly was found internally during routine testing and is being reported based on our commitment to customer transparency and to improve their business or production environments. 

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND SOLUTION

VULNERABILITY DETAILS

Rockwell Automation used the latest version of the CVSS scoring system to assess the following vulnerabilities. 

CVE-2025-7353 IMPACT

A security issue exists due to the web-based debugger agent enabled on released devices. If a specific IP address is used to connect to the WDB agent, it can allow remote attackers to perform memory dumps, modify memory, and control execution flow.  

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8 
CVSS 3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 4.0 Base Score: 9.3 
CVSS 4.0 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE: CWE-1188: Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default 
Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) database: No 

Mitigations and Workarounds 
Users should update to the corrected version if possible. If users using the affected software are not able to upgrade the version, security best practices should be applied. 

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