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CVE-2022-1161: ICSA-22-090-05 Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-829

Description

An attacker with the ability to modify a user program may change user program code on some ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and GuardLogix Control systems. Studio 5000 Logix Designer writes user-readable program code to a separate location than the executed compiled code, allowing an attacker to change one and not the other.

Affected products

• Rockwellautomation Compact Guardlogix 5370 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compact Guardlogix 5380 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1768-L43 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1768-L45 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1769-L31 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1769-L32C Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1769-L32E Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1769-L35Cr Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 1769-L35E Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5370 L1 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5370 L2 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5370 L3 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5380 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Compactlogix 5480 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Controllogix 5550 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Controllogix 5560 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Controllogix 5570 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwell Automation ControlLogix® 5580: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Drivelogix 5730 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Flexlogix 1794-L34 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Guardlogix 5560 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Guardlogix 5570 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Guardlogix 5580 Firmware: all versions
• Rockwellautomation Softlogix 5800 Firmware: all versions

References

• https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-05
• https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-05

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