{ "document": { "acknowledgments": [ { "organization": "AVEVA", "summary": "reported vulnerabilities CVE-2026-81821 and CVE-2026-81822 to CISA" }, { "names": [ "Adham Khairy Ramadan (0xadham)" ], "organization": "HackerOne", "summary": "reported vulnerabilities CVE-2026-81823 and CVE-2026-81824 to AVEVA" } ], "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Disclosure is not limited", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/traffic-light-protocol-tlp-definitions-and-usage" } }, "lang": "en-US", "notes": [ { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This product is provided subject to this Notification (https://www.cisa.gov/notification) and this Privacy & Use policy (https://www.cisa.gov/privacy-policy).", "title": "Legal Notice and Terms of Use" }, { "category": "summary", "text": "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to disclose information, brute-force hashes, or run arbitrary code in a browser session.", "title": "Advisory Summary" }, { "category": "other", "text": "Critical Manufacturing", "title": "Critical infrastructure sectors" }, { "category": "other", "text": "Worldwide", "title": "Countries/areas deployed" }, { "category": "other", "text": "United Kingdom", "title": "Company headquarters location" }, { "category": "general", "text": "CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Minimize network exposure for all control system devices and/or systems, ensuring they are not accessible from the internet.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolating them from business networks.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "When remote access is required, use more secure methods, such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), recognizing VPNs may have vulnerabilities and should be updated to the most current version available. Also recognize VPN is only as secure as the connected devices.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B--Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "CISA also recommends users take the following measures to protect themselves from social engineering attacks:", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Do not click web links or open attachments in unsolicited email messages.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Refer to Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams for more information on avoiding email scams.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "Refer to Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks for more information on social engineering attacks.", "title": "Recommended Practices" }, { "category": "general", "text": "No known public exploitation specifically targeting these vulnerabilities has been reported to CISA at this time.", "title": "Recommended Practices" } ], "publisher": { "category": "coordinator", "contact_details": "central@cisa.dhs.gov", "name": "CISA", "namespace": "https://www.cisa.gov/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "ICS Advisory ICSA-26-253-01 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-253-01.json" }, { "category": "self", "summary": "ICSA Advisory ICSA-26-253-01 - Web Version", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-253-01" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-10-301-01" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Cybersecurity_Best_Practices_for_Industrial_Control_Systems.pdf" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/topics/industrial-control-systems" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/sites/default/files/publications/emailscams0905.pdf" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/tips/ST04-014" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-alerts/ics-alert-10-301-01" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/recommended_practices/NCCIC_ICS-CERT_Defense_in_Depth_2016_S508C.pdf" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/targeted-cyber-intrusion-detection-and-mitigation-strategies-update-b" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/secure-our-world/teach-employees-avoid-phishing" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "Recommended Practices", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/avoiding-social-engineering-and-phishing-attacks" } ], "title": "AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-09-10T06:00:00.000000Z", "generator": { "date": "2026-09-09T20:05:18.083747Z", "engine": { "name": "CISA CSAF Generator", "version": "1.0.0" } }, "id": "ICSA-26-253-01", "initial_release_date": "2026-09-10T06:00:00.000000Z", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-10T06:00:00.000000Z", "legacy_version": "Initial", "number": "1", "summary": "Initial Republication of AVEVA security bulletin AVEVA-2026-006" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "<=2025_SP1_P1_build_7.1.9580.8513", "product": { "name": "AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor: <=2025_SP1_P1_build_7.1.9580.8513", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Pipeline Integrity Monitor" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "AVEVA" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-81821", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-321", "name": "Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key" }, "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a miscreant with read access to PIMBoards project files to decrypt and view sensitive information. ", "title": "Vulnerability Summary" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "external", "summary": "cwe.mitre.org", "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/321.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.cve.org", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81821" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N" } ], "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Customers using affected product versions or affected PIMBoards project files should take the following actions to mitigate the risk of exploit: Apply AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 Security Update and migrate old project files. For project files that cannot be migrated (e.g. backups or transient copies), evaluate the risk of potential password leakage from these files and implement stricter read access controls to protect these unsafe files.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Require AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor PIMBoards users to change their passwords.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Important: PIMBoards Project Files migration from older versions to AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 is one-way due to the changes in password hashing algorithms and end-user managed encryption keys.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "mitigation", "details": "For more information, see AVEVA security bulletin AVEVA-2026-006. https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ], "url": "https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 8.4, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] }, { "cve": "CVE-2026-81822", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-327", "name": "Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm" }, "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a miscreant with read access to PIMBoards project files to reverse engineer PIMBoards users' app-native passwords through computational brute-forcing of weak hashes, potentially allowing elevation to a PIMBoards administrator user.", "title": "Vulnerability Summary" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "external", "summary": "cwe.mitre.org", "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/327.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.cve.org", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81822" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N" } ], "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Customers using affected product versions or affected PIMBoards project files should take the following actions to mitigate the risk of exploit: Apply AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 Security Update and migrate old project files. For project files that cannot be migrated (e.g. backups or transient copies), evaluate the risk of potential password leakage from these files and implement stricter read access controls to protect these unsafe files.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Require AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor PIMBoards users to change their passwords.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Important: PIMBoards Project Files migration from older versions to AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 is one-way due to the changes in password hashing algorithms and end-user managed encryption keys.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "mitigation", "details": "For more information, see AVEVA security bulletin AVEVA-2026-006. https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ], "url": "https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 8.4, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] }, { "cve": "CVE-2026-81823", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-862", "name": "Missing Authorization" }, "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow an unauthenticated miscreant to perform read operations intended only for PIMBoards users, resulting in information disclosure. Write operations are not impacted.", "title": "Vulnerability Summary" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "external", "summary": "cwe.mitre.org", "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.cve.org", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81823" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N" } ], "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Customers using affected product versions or affected PIMBoards project files should take the following actions to mitigate the risk of exploit: Apply AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 Security Update and migrate old project files. For project files that cannot be migrated (e.g. backups or transient copies), evaluate the risk of potential password leakage from these files and implement stricter read access controls to protect these unsafe files.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Require AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor PIMBoards users to change their passwords.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Important: PIMBoards Project Files migration from older versions to AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 is one-way due to the changes in password hashing algorithms and end-user managed encryption keys.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "mitigation", "details": "For more information, see AVEVA security bulletin AVEVA-2026-006. https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ], "url": "https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 5.3, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] }, { "cve": "CVE-2026-81824", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-79", "name": "Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')" }, "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow a miscreant to run arbitrary JavaScript code in a browser session of a PIMBoards user who was socially engineered to click on a malicious link.", "title": "Vulnerability Summary" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "external", "summary": "cwe.mitre.org", "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.cve.org", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81824" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "www.first.org", "url": "https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H" } ], "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "AVEVA recommends that organizations evaluate the impact of these vulnerabilities based on their operational environment, architecture, and product implementation. Customers using affected product versions or affected PIMBoards project files should take the following actions to mitigate the risk of exploit: Apply AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 Security Update and migrate old project files. For project files that cannot be migrated (e.g. backups or transient copies), evaluate the risk of potential password leakage from these files and implement stricter read access controls to protect these unsafe files.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Require AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor PIMBoards users to change their passwords.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "vendor_fix", "details": "Important: PIMBoards Project Files migration from older versions to AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025 SP1 P2 is one-way due to the changes in password hashing algorithms and end-user managed encryption keys.", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, { "category": "mitigation", "details": "For more information, see AVEVA security bulletin AVEVA-2026-006. https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf", "product_ids": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ], "url": "https://www.aveva.com/content/dam/aveva/documents/support/cyber-security-updates/SecurityBulletin_AVEVA-2026-006.pdf" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 4.7, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }