{"id":"CVE-2023-2638","aliases":["EUVD-2023-34104","GHSA-7j8r-p4gv-87r9"],"status":"published","title":"Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk System Services Vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service Attack","description":"Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk System Services does not verify that a backup configuration archive is password protected.\n\n \n\nImproper authorization in FTSSBackupRestore.exe may lead to the loading of malicious configuration archives.  This vulnerability may allow a local, authenticated non-admin user to craft a malicious backup archive, without password protection, that will be loaded by FactoryTalk System Services as a valid backup when a restore procedure takes places. 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