Rising ICS Vulnerability Volume and New High-Severity Advisories for Valmet and Honeywell Products
Industrial control system (ICS) vulnerability reporting hit record levels in 2025, with 508 ICS advisories covering 2,155 CVEs and an increasing average severity (CVSS averages exceeding 8.0 in 2024–2025), according to a Forescout report. The report highlights that Purdue Level 1 devices (e.g., PLCs/RTUs/IEDs) were most affected, followed by Level 3 operational systems and Level 2 control systems, with critical manufacturing and energy most impacted. It also flags a growing visibility gap as an increasing number of ICS vulnerabilities lack associated CISA ICSA publications, including changes in how some vendor advisories (e.g., Siemens) are routed.
CISA published an ICS advisory for Valmet DNA Engineering Web Tools (<= C2022) describing CVE-2025-15577, a high-severity path traversal issue (CVSS 3.1 8.6) that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to manipulate a web maintenance services URL to achieve arbitrary file read. Separately, CISA also warned (as reported by BleepingComputer) of a critical authentication flaw in multiple Honeywell CCTV products, CVE-2026-1670 (CVSS 9.8), where an exposed unauthenticated API endpoint could let an attacker change the “forgot password” recovery email and potentially enable account takeover and unauthorized camera feed access; CISA reported no known public exploitation at the time and reiterated standard ICS/OT hardening guidance (reduce exposure, segment networks, and secure remote access).
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