🛡️ CVE-2024-5623 — industrial-automation-aprol

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-250 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability in B&R APROL <= R 4.4-00P3 may be used by an authenticated local attacker to get other users to execute arbitrary code under their privileges.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-5623 is classified as CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The software runs with more privilege than the task needs, so any flaw in it inherits that privilege.

Affected software

CVE-2024-5623 is recorded against 1 package.

  • industrial-automation-aprol (fixed in r4.4-00p3)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 August 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.br-automation.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-250
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-29
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
industrial-automation-aprol — r4.4-00p3

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