What is CVE-2019-19875?

CVE-2019-19875 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Br-Automation Industrial Automation Aprol, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2019-19875?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Br-Automation Industrial Automation Aprol

CVE-2019-19875

An issue was discovered in B&R Industrial Automation APROL before R4.2 V7.08. Arbitrary commands could be injected (using Python scripts) via the AprolCluster script that is invoked via sudo and thus executes with root privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-16364.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.015 (71.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Br-automation Industrial_automation_aprol
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19875?: CVE-2019-19875 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Br-Automation Industrial Automation Aprol, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-19875?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.