March 21, 2023, 11:55 a.m. | Nick Miles

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Rockwell Automation ThinManager ThinServer Multiple Vulnerabilities


There are multiple vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation ThinManager ThinServer.exe.


Affected Versions:

  • 6.x - 10.x

  • 11.0.0 - 11.0.5

  • 11.1.0 - 11.1.5

  • 11.2.0 - 11.2.6

  • 12.0.0 - 12.0.4

  • 12.1.0 - 12.1.5

  • 13.0.0 - 13.0.1

CVE-2023-27855 - ThinManager ThinServer Path Traversal Upload


(CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)


A client message sent to a synchronization thread in ThinServer.exe has the following structure:



// be = big endian
struct header
{
be16 type; // msg type
be16 flags; // msg flags
// 0x0001 …

11.2 automation client cve cvss message path path traversal rockwell automation synchronization vulnerabilities

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