Revision History
Revision Number
1.0
Revision History
Version 1.0 – September 12, 2023
Affected Products
| Affected Product | First Known in Software Version | Corrected in Software Version |
| Pavilion8® | v5.17 | v5.20 |
Vulnerability Details
Rockwell Automation used the latest version of the CVSS scoring system to assess the following vulnerabilities. The security of our products is important to us as your chosen industrial automation supplier. This anomaly was found internally during routine testing and is being reported based on our commitment to customer transparency and to improve their business or production environments.
CVE-2023-29463 IMPACT
The JMX Console within the Pavilion is exposed to application users and does not require authentication. If exploited, a malicious user could potentially retrieve other application users’ session data and or log users out of their session.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8/10
CVSS Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: 287- Improper Authentication
Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) database: No
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Risk Mitigation & User Action
Customers using the affected software are encouraged to apply the risk mitigations, if possible. Additionally, we encourage customers to implement our suggested security best practices to minimize the risk of vulnerability.
If customers are unable to update to v5.20, please follow the instructions below to disable the vulnerability in v5.17.
- Open the web.xml file in your Pavilion8® installation folder set during installation and go to Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF, by default this would be under C:\Pavilion\Console\container\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF.
- Search for the text jmx-console-action-handler and delete the below lines from web.xml file:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.pav.jboss.jmx.HtmlAdaptorServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jmx-console-action-handler</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
- Save the changes and close the file.
- Restart Pavilion8® Console Service.
- Logout and log back into the console and navigate to the URL http:// <FQDN>/jmx-console to confirm you are getting the error message HTTP Status 404 – Not Found.
Note: <FQDN> is your fully qualified domain name used for the Console login.
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