PN1631 | PowerMonitor™ 1000 – Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Affected Products

Affected Product (automated)	First Known in Software Revision	Corrected in Software Revision
PowerMonitor™ 1000	V4.011	V4.019

Security Issue Details

Rockwell Automation uses the latest version of the CVSS scoring system to assess the security issues.  The security of our products is important to us as your industrial automation supplier.  This issue was found internally during routine testing and is being reported based on our commitment to transparency and to improving business environments.

CVE-2023-2072 IMPACT
The PowerMonitor 1000 contains stored cross site scripting security issues within the web page of the product.  The pages do not require privileges to access and can be injected with code by an attacker. This could be used to leverage an attack on an authenticated user. The result being remote code execution and the complete loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the product.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-787 Out-Of-Bounds Write

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) database: No

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Risk Mitigation & User Action

Customers using the affected software should use the risk mitigation and our suggested security best practices below to minimize the potential risks.

• Upgrade to V4.019 which has been patched to mitigate these issues.
• Security Best Practices: QA43240 - Recommended Security Guidelines from Rockwell Automation to minimize risks.

Additional Resources

• CVE-2023-2072 JSON

Glossary

Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability: (XSS) a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts into content from otherwise trusted websites

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) database: an official list of security flaws that attackers have actively exploited