CVE-2017-5176 describes a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench (CCW) versions 9.01.00 and earlier, impacting both Developer and Free Standard Editions. An attacker could exploit this by placing a malicious DLL, potentially gaining privileges up to administrator level on the victim's computer. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a local attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires user interaction and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.01.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:rockwellautomation:connected_components_workbench:*:*:*:*:developer:*:*:* | ||
<= 9.01.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:rockwellautomation:connected_components_workbench:*:*:*:*:free_standard:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.