CVE-2024-7953
Auth flaw lets attacker create a project and gain project-admin rights in Rockwell products.
Is CVE-2024-7953 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2024-7953 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.24% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2024-7953?
CVE-2024-7953 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.7. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2024-7953?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2024-7953. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2024-7953 affect?
CVE-2024-7953 affects Rockwell Automation products (see advisory SD1702). Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2024-7953?
Apply vendor patch/mitigations, restrict project creation, and audit admin assignments.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Attacker can create a project and obtain project-admin privileges, enabling project creation, modification, deletion and unauthorized config changes.
Patch when possible
- affected<= 7.07
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.