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ICSA-25-212-02  ·  Published 2025-07-31  ·  View on CISA ICS-CERT ↗

Rockwell Automation Lifecycle Services with VMware

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL

Risk Summary

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to code execution on the host or leakage of memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

Remediations

  • Rockwell Automation will contact impacted users with an active Rockwell Automation Infrastructure Managed Service contract or Threat Detection Managed Service contract to discuss actions needed for remediation efforts.
  • Rockwell recommends users without Rockwell Automation managed services contract to refer to Broadcom's advisories below:
  • Support Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal
  • https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-80u3f-release-notes.html
  • https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-80u2e-release-notes.html
  • https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/7-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-70u3w-release-notes.html
  • Rockwell Automation encourages users of the affected software who are not able to upgrade to one of the corrected versions to apply security best practices where possible.
  • For more information refer to Rockwell Automation's security advisory.

Affected Vendors

Rockwell Automation

Affected Products (5)

Rockwell Automation · Industrial Data Center (IDC) with VMware >=Generations_1|<=4
Rockwell Automation · VersaVirtual Appliance (VVA) with VMware A|B
Rockwell Automation · Threat Detection Managed Services (TDMS) with VMware vers:all/*
Rockwell Automation · Endpoint Protection Service with Rockwell Automation Proxy & VMware only vers:all/*
Rockwell Automation · Engineered and Integrated Solutions with VMware vers:all/*

Affected Sectors

Critical Manufacturing

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