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CVE-2017-6024 — Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5380 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.1

A Resource Exhaustion issue was discovered in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 5580 controllers V28.011, V28.012, and V28.013; ControlLogix 5580 controllers V29.011; CompactLogix 5380 controllers V28.011; and CompactLogix 5380 controllers V29.011. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition by sending a series of specific CIP-based commands to the controller.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.1 (2.0)
Published
2017-05-06
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • rockwellautomation / compactlogix_5380_firmware / v28.011
  • rockwellautomation / compactlogix_5380_firmware / v29.011
  • rockwellautomation / controllogix_5580_firmware / v28.011
  • rockwellautomation / controllogix_5580_firmware / v28.012
  • rockwellautomation / controllogix_5580_firmware / v28.013
  • rockwellautomation / controllogix_5580_firmware / v29.011

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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