Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-6079

Medium

Published: 13 August 2024

Published
13 August 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 5.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0126 79.8th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-6079 is a medium-severity Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere (CWE-610) vulnerability in Rockwellautomation (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation Emulate3D™, which could be leveraged to execute a DLL Hijacking attack. The application loads shared libraries, which are readable and writable by any user. If exploited, a malicious user could leverage a malicious…

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dll and perform a remote code execution attack.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Rockwellautomation
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-610

Limits impact of an externally controlled reference to a primary information resource by switching to an identified alternative.

References