CVE-2019-6525
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2019-04-11
- Fixed in2017
- WeaknessCWE-269 · CWE-522
Am I affected?
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Description
AVEVA Wonderware System Platform 2017 Update 2 and prior uses an ArchestrA network user account for authentication of system processes and inter-node communications. A user with low privileges could make use of an API to obtain the credentials for this account.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2019-04-1121:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2019-6525?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2019-6525?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017.x | < 2017 | 2017 | NVD |
| 2017.x | = 2017 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
AVEVA Wonderware System Platform
Wonderware System Platform 2017: Update 2 and prior
Fix
- Update Aveva wonderware system platform to 2017
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-19-029-03 · 1 productAVEVA recommends users using Wonderware System Platform 2017 Update 2 and prior should upgrade to System Platform 2017 Update 3 as soon as possible. This update can be downloaded from the following location (login required):
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-19-029-03 · 1 productAVEVA has published Security Bulletin LFSEC00000135. It can be found at the following location:
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-19-029-03 · 1 productAVEVA recommends that users secure industrial control systems according to NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 2:
Advisories and patches
- sw.aveva.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.18.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.04read 2026-10-23
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-522read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-269read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.3 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2019-04-11
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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