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CVE-2025-14772, ABB T-MAC Plus: broken access control / authz bypass (CVSS 8.8)

cve · CVE-2025-14772 single-source-national-cert

Coverage
1
first 2026-07-15 → last 2026-07-15
Latest activity
2026-07-15
CISA republishes four Rockwell/ABB OT advisories led by a CVSS 10.0 debug-port takeover on an energy/water…
Peak priority
notable
1 notable
Targets
energy
sectors: energy, water, manufacturing
Sources cited
4
1 hosts

Action items (2)

Do-now tasks recorded on the entries about CVE-2025-14772, newest first. Check the date before acting on an older one.

  • Upgrade every Rockwell 1715-AENTR EtherNet/IP Adapter (firmware ≤ 3.003) to firmware 3.011; until the OT change window allows it, confirm the adapter does not answer on a routable or business-network segment and restrict its debug/CLI port to the specific engineering-workstation IPs at the switch/firewall.
    2026-07-15CVE-2026-10577 +4
  • Update any ABB T-MAC Plus 4.0-24 terminal-management system to the fixed 4.0-25 release, and update ABB Ability Edgenius to 3.2.4.1.
    2026-07-15CVE-2026-10577 +4

Defender insights

What each entry about CVE-2025-14772 tells a defender to do, newest first.

2026-07-15NOTABLECISA republishes four Rockwell/ABB OT advisories led by a CVSS 10.0 debug-port takeover on an energy/water EtherNet/IP adapter, fixed in firmware 3.011

Triage

Story timeline

  1. 2026-07-15CISA ICS batch (14 Jul): Rockwell 1715-AENTR unauthenticated debug-port takeover (CVE-2026-10577, CVSS 10.0, fixed in firmware 3.011) and a Swiss-vendor ABB T-MAC Plus auth chain (CVSS 9.9)
    trending-vulnerabilitiesCISA republishes four Rockwell/ABB OT advisories led by a CVSS 10.0 debug-port takeover on an energy/water EtherNet/IP adapter, fixed in firmware 3.011
ATT&CK techniques (2 across 2 tactics)

2 techniques observed across 1 entry about this entity, derived from entry metadata and body evidence, never asserted without a published entry behind it · pinned to MITRE ATT&CK v19.2 · compare on the matrix · Navigator layer (JSON)

  • Initial AccessExploit Public-Facing Application
  • Privilege EscalationExploitation for Privilege Escalation

Initial Access TA0001

T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application×1

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network. The weakness in the system can be a software bug, a temporary glitch, or a misconfiguration.

Evidence: 2026-07-15/cisa-ics-batch-rockwell-abb-energy-water-ot · ATT&CK page ↗

Privilege Escalation TA0004

T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation×1

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges. Exploitation of a software vulnerability occurs when an adversary takes advantage of a programming error in a program, service, or within the operating system software or kernel itself to execute adversary-controlled code. Security constructs such as permission levels will often hinder access to information and use of certain techniques, so adversaries will likely need to perform privilege escalation to include use of software exploitation to circumvent those restrictions.

Evidence: 2026-07-15/cisa-ics-batch-rockwell-abb-energy-water-ot · ATT&CK page ↗

Entries about CVE-2025-14772, ABB T-MAC Plus: broken access control / authz bypass (CVSS 8.8) (1)

2026-07-15 · view entry permalink →

NOTABLECVE-2026-10577 +4NATOA2

CISA ICS batch (14 Jul): Rockwell 1715-AENTR unauthenticated debug-port takeover (CVE-2026-10577, CVSS 10.0, fixed in firmware 3.011) and a Swiss-vendor ABB T-MAC Plus auth chain (CVSS 9.9)

CISA published four Industrial Control Systems advisories on 2026-07-14, each a verbatim republication of a vendor PSIRT bulletin, that land squarely on this constituency's energy and water sectors and on a Swiss-headquartered vendor (CISA, 2026-07-14). The most severe is CVE-2026-10577 in the Rockwell Automation 1715-AENTR EtherNet/IP Adapter (all versions ≤ 3.003), rated CVSS v3.1 10.0 for missing authentication on a critical function (CWE-306): a network-accessible debug port exposes intrusive CLI commands with no authentication, so an unauthenticated remote attacker can "read or delete files, stop tasks, modify memory, and change I/O states" on the device (CISA / Rockwell PSIRT, 2026-07-14). The advisory names the affected sectors as Energy, Water and Wastewater, and Critical Manufacturing; Rockwell fixes it in firmware version 3.011 and CISA additionally recommends network isolation for devices that cannot be upgraded immediately (CISA / Rockwell PSIRT SD1785, 2026-07-14). No known public exploitation has been reported to CISA.

Separately, ABB T-MAC Plus 4.0-24 (fixed in 4.0-25) (a Terminal Management System operating chemical/petroleum terminals, pipeline and refinery tankage, bulk plants and hydrogen terminals) is subject to four flaws responsibly disclosed by Angelo Catalani of Italy's national cybersecurity agency (ACN): CVE-2025-14771 (CVSS 9.9, a low-privilege authenticated file disclosure via a crafted HTTP GET against the web application, CWE-552), CVE-2025-14772 (CVSS 8.8, broken access control letting a low-privilege user perform administrative operations, CWE-639), CVE-2025-14773 (CVSS 8.0, stored cross-site scripting) and CVE-2025-14774 (CVSS 7.4, an adjacent-network denial of service of the Card Reader service caused by an unencrypted communication protocol) (CISA / ABB PSIRT, 2026-07-14). ABB states exploitation requires network or physical access to the terminal LAN rather than internet reachability, and that an update resolves the set. The same day, ABB shipped a fix in Ability Edgenius (fixed in 3.2.4.1) for the previously-disclosed CVE-2026-31431 "Copy Fail" Linux-kernel algif_aead local root-escalation flaw; new here only in that a specific Swiss-vendor OT product is now named as an affected instance (CISA / ABB PSIRT, 2026-07-14), and a low-severity (CVSS 4.4) DLL search-path fix (CVE-2025-13162) in 800xA for Advant Master / Control Builder A (CISA / ABB PSIRT, 2026-07-14).

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read or delete files, stop tasks, modify memory, and change I/O states, potentially impacting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the device.

No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.

CISA (ICSA-26-195-04, republishing Rockwell Automation PSIRT) 2026-07-14
vulnerability15 Jul 04:36Zsingle-source · national CERTOpen finding →

Co-occurring entities

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Where this entity is cited

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Source distribution

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