VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9338

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Published 2017-02-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
2.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.7

Description

An issue was discovered in Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1100 controller 1763-L16AWA, Series A and B, Version 14.000 and prior versions; 1763-L16BBB, Series A and B, Version 14.000 and prior versions; 1763-L16BWA, Series A and B, Version 14.000 and prior versions; and 1763-L16DWD, Series A and B, Version 14.000 and prior versions. Because of an Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource, users with administrator privileges may be able to remove all administrative users requiring a factory reset to restore ancillary web server function. Exploitation of this vulnerability will still allow the affected device to function in its capacity as a controller.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
39%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
rockwellautomation1763-l16awa_series_a{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16awa_series_b{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16bbb_series_a{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16bbb_series_b{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16bwa_series_a{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16bwa_series_b{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16dwd_series_a{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1763-l16dwd_series_b{"endIncluding":"14.000"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32awa_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32awa_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32awaa_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32awaa_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bwa_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bwa_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bwaa_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bwaa_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bxb_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bxb_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bxba_series_a{"endIncluding":"15.004"}
rockwellautomation1766-l32bxba_series_b{"endIncluding":"15.004"}

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.