CVE-2024-21917 (GCVE-0-2024-21917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-31 18:16 – Updated: 2026-01-15 15:34
VLAI
Title
Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform Service Token Vulnerability
Summary
A vulnerability exists in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform that allows a malicious user to obtain the service token and use it for authentication on another FTSP directory. This is due to the lack of digital signing between the FTSP service token and directory.  If exploited, a malicious user could potentially retrieve user information and modify settings without any authentication.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-06 05:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
Rockwell CNA under the icscert root
CNA scorecard C 74/100 over 47 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Service Platform Affected: <= v6.31
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Date Public
2024-01-30 14:00
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How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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