CVE-2025-1449: Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager Vulnerability Enables Adversaries to Gain Access to Run Arbitrary Commands

Hard on the heels of the disclosure of CVE-2025-24813, a RCE flaw in Apache Tomcat actively leveraged in the wild shortly after the release of its PoC, another vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-1449 that can be exploited remotely comes into the spotlight. Once weaponized,  CVE-2025-1449 gives admin-level threat actors the green light to run arbitrary commands.

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CVE-2025-1449 Analysis

A critical flaw impacting Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager products enables hackers with administrative privileges to run arbitrary commands within the service container. This RCE flaw (CVE-2025-1449) has low attacker complexity, posing increasing risks to organizations that rely on potentially affected devices. This admin shell access issue arises from improper input validation in Verve’s deprecated Legacy Agentless Device Inventory feature, still available in affected systems.

CVE-2025-1449 impacts product versions 1.39 and earlier. The vendor has reported this issue to CISA to increase cybersecurity awareness and help global organizations that might be exposed to CVE-2025-1449 exploitation risks proactively thwart RCE attacks. 

The vendor has addressed the flaw in the product version 1.40. In addition, as potential CVE-2025-1449 mitigation measures to reduce exploitation risks, defenders recommend restricting network exposure of control system devices to prevent Internet access, placing control system networks behind firewalls, separating them from business networks, and applying secure remote access methods like VPNs. 

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