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⚠️ Rockwell Automation disclosed two local vulnerabilities in Studio 5000 Simulation Interface (version 2.02 and earlier) that allow path traversal–based local code execution (CVE-2025-11696) and a local SSRF that can trigger outbound SMB requests for NTLM hash capture (CVE-2025-11697). Both issues carry high severity (CVSS v4: 9.3 and 8.8) and are exploitable by low-complexity local attackers. Rockwell recommends upgrading to version 3.0.0 or later; CISA advises isolating control system networks, minimizing exposure, and following secure remote-access practices.

🔔 CISA released 18 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories addressing security flaws across a broad set of vendors and product families. The advisories cover firmware, application software, and cloud services used in operational technology and industrial environments, including products from Siemens, Rockwell Automation, AVEVA, and Mitsubishi Electric. Administrators should review the advisories for technical details and apply vendor mitigations, patches, and compensating controls promptly to reduce risk to availability and safety.

🏆Fortinet’s FortiGate Rugged series (FGR-50G-5G and FGR-70G-5G) earned the Red Dot Product Design Award for its fanless industrial design, integrated 5G, and purpose-built ASIC performance. Engineered for OT and critical infrastructure, the appliances combine thermal resilience, shock and moisture protection, and low-latency security functions including next-generation firewalling, SD-WAN, VPN, and AI-driven threat detection. The recognition underscores Fortinet’s focus on precision engineering and durable, field-ready security.

🔍 Falcon for XIoT introduces zero-touch asset discovery, native segmentation visibility, and a unified OT/XIoT view to reduce blind spots across industrial networks. The solution leverages DHCP data and the existing Falcon sensor to build continuous, agentless inventories and to monitor inter-device traffic without manual scan configuration. These enhancements aim to accelerate detection, simplify operations, and provide richer context for faster security decisions across IT, OT, and XIoT environments.

⚠️ Survision's License Plate Recognition (LPR) Camera contains a missing authentication for critical function, allowing unauthenticated access to the configuration wizard. The issue affects all versions and is tracked as CVE-2025-12108 with a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3 and a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8, indicating remote, low-complexity exploitation with high impact. Survision released firmware v3.5 to address the vulnerability and recommends enabling configuration passwords, defining minimal-right user roles, and enforcing client certificate authentication where possible.

⚠️ CISA warns that Radiometrics VizAir systems (versions prior to 08/2025) contain multiple critical vulnerabilities — including missing authentication for admin functions and an exposed REST API key — assigned CVE-2025-61945, CVE-2025-54863, and CVE-2025-61956 and rated CVSS v4 10.0. Remote attackers could alter weather parameters, disable alerts, manipulate runway settings, and extract sensitive meteorological data, potentially disrupting airport operations. Radiometrics has deployed updates to affected systems; CISA recommends minimizing network exposure, isolating control networks, and using secure remote access methods.

🔔 CISA released five Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on November 4, 2025, providing timely information on vulnerabilities, impacts, and mitigations for affected products. The advisories address Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT-6, Survision License Plate Recognition Camera, Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2, Radiometrics VizAir, and IDIS ICM Viewer. Users and administrators are urged to review the technical details and implement recommended mitigations and compensating controls to reduce exposure and protect operational systems.

⚠️ Delta Electronics and CISA warn of a stack-based buffer overflow in CNCSoft-G2 (CVE-2025-58317) affecting versions 2.1.0.27 and earlier. When a user opens a specially crafted file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected process; the vulnerability received a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and is characterized by low attack complexity. Delta recommends updating to Version 2.1.0.34 or later. CISA advises minimizing network exposure for control systems, isolating control networks, and using secure remote access methods.

🔒 An argument injection vulnerability (CWE-88) in ICM Viewer v1.6.0.10 (CVE-2025-12556) could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host system. CISA assigns a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 and a CVSS v4 score of 8.7, noting remote exploitability with low attack complexity and limited privileges required. IDIS requires immediate upgrade to v1.7.1 or uninstallation; Claroty Team82 researchers reported the issue and CISA reports no known public exploitation to date.

⚠️ Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT-6 (v6.2.7.0) contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities — a heap-based and a stack-based overflow — triggered by specially crafted project files. Identified as CVE-2025-54496 and CVE-2025-54526, both carry CVSS v3.1 scores of 7.8 and CVSS v4 scores of 8.4. Successful exploitation could crash the HMI and may permit code execution; the vendor issued fixes in V6.2.8.0 and recommends updating to V6.2.9.0 or later.

⚠️ The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns hacktivists are increasingly exploiting internet-accessible industrial control systems (ICS), citing recent intrusions that affected a water utility, an oil and gas automated tank gauge (ATG), and a farm's grain-drying silo. Attackers manipulated pressure, fuel-gauge, and environmental controls, creating safety and service disruptions. The alert urges secure remote access via VPNs with MFA and inventories of OT assets. Provincial and municipal coordination is recommended to protect sectors lacking cybersecurity oversight.

🛡️ CISA released two Industrial Control Systems advisories addressing the International Standards Organization ISO 15118-2 standard and Hitachi Energy TropOS. The advisories provide timely information on security issues, vulnerabilities, and potential exploits affecting ICS components. Administrators and operators are urged to review the advisories for technical details and recommended mitigations to protect operational environments.

⚠️ Hitachi Energy's TropOS wireless devices contain multiple vulnerabilities — including OS command injection and improper privilege management — that can be exploited remotely by authenticated users to obtain root access. Affected 4th Gen firmware versions up to 8.9.6.0 are vulnerable (CVE-2025-1036, CVE-2025-1037, CVE-2025-1038); CVSS v4 scores reach 8.7. Hitachi Energy advises immediate update to version 8.9.7.0, and CISA recommends isolating devices, minimizing network exposure, and following ICS security best practices.

⚠️ The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns that hacktivists recently breached multiple internet-exposed industrial control systems across Canada. Attackers modified settings at a water treatment facility, an oil and gas site (manipulating an Automated Tank Gauge), and a farm grain dryer, causing disruptions, false alarms, and potentially unsafe conditions. Authorities describe the intrusions as opportunistic attempts to attract media attention and erode public trust rather than highly sophisticated campaigns. The bulletin urges organizations to inventory exposed ICS assets, remove direct internet access, use VPNs with two‑factor authentication, keep firmware updated, and report suspicious activity.

🔔 CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories addressing multiple vulnerabilities that may affect operational technology safety and availability. The advisories cover ICSA-25-301-01 Schneider Electric EcoStruxure, ICSMA-25-301-01 Vertikal Systems Hospital Manager Backend Services, and an update to ICSA-24-352-04 Schneider Electric Modicon (Update B). Administrators and asset owners should review the technical findings, assess exposure, and apply recommended mitigations promptly to reduce operational risk.

🔒 Cyber-physical systems (CPS) underpin critical infrastructure across industry, healthcare and buildings, and their continuous availability is essential to public safety and business continuity. The article urges CISOs to prioritize CPS security, invest in OT protection, close long-standing IT–OT silos and maintain accurate asset inventories. It highlights that many organizations lack OT incident response or business continuity plans and emphasizes that rapid recovery, segmentation and tested emergency procedures are key to minimizing downtime and harm. Analysts warn of steep recovery times and severe financial and human impacts if CPS resilience is not improved.

⚠️ Delta Electronics' ASDA-Soft contains two stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-62579, CVE-2025-62580) affecting versions 7.0.2.0 and earlier. Both issues were assigned a CVSS v4 base score of 8.4 and can allow writing outside the intended stack buffer when a valid user opens a crafted project file. Exploitation requires local access and user interaction; no public exploitation has been reported to CISA. Delta has released ASDA-Soft v7.1.1.0 and users should update and apply network isolation and standard email/attachment precautions.

⚠️ A remote NULL pointer dereference in NIHON KOHDEN CNS-6201 central monitors can be triggered by a specially crafted UDP packet, causing the monitoring process to terminate and producing a denial-of-service. The issue is unauthenticated, reproducible when UDP is reachable, and is tracked as CVE-2025-59668 with CVSS v4 8.7. Vendor support for affected versions has ended; users should migrate to successor products or apply strict network-level mitigations such as isolation, boundary devices, and careful traffic monitoring.

🔔 CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems advisories addressing vulnerabilities and updates across multiple vendors and products, including AutomationDirect, ASKI Energy, Veeder-Root, Delta Electronics, NIHON KOHDEN, Schneider Electric, and Hitachi Energy. The notices cover new findings and several updates (for example, Update A and Update C) and list ICSA/ICSMA identifiers for each advisory. Administrators and asset owners should review the technical details, apply available patches or vendor mitigations, and reinforce network segmentation, access controls, and monitoring to reduce exposure.

⚠ An unauthenticated access vulnerability in the embedded web server of ASKI Energy ALS‑Mini‑S4 and ALS‑Mini‑S8 IP controllers allows remote actors to read and modify device configuration, potentially yielding full control. Tracked as CVE-2025-9574, the issue is a Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE‑306) with a CVSS v4 base score of 9.9. ABB reports these products reached end of life in 2022 and will not be patched; operators should remove internet exposure, place devices behind firewalls or secure proxies that enforce authentication and logging, restrict access to whitelisted IPs, monitor for unauthorized access with IDS/IPS, or physically disconnect the Ethernet port if web features are not required.