AutomationDirect Productivity Suite up to 4.2.1.9 password recovery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in AutomationDirect Productivity Suite, Productivity 3000 P3-622 CPU, Productivity 3000 P3-550E CPU, Productivity 3000 P3-530 CPU, Productivity 2000 P2-622 CPU, Productivity 2000 P2-550 CPU, Productivity 1000 P1-550 CPU and Productivity 1000 P1-540 CPU up to 4.2.1.9. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to password recovery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-61977. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in AutomationDirect Productivity Suite, Productivity 3000 P3-622 CPU, Productivity 3000 P3-550E CPU, Productivity 3000 P3-530 CPU, Productivity 2000 P2-622 CPU, Productivity 2000 P2-550 CPU, Productivity 1000 P1-550 CPU and Productivity 1000 P1-540 CPU up to 4.2.1.9. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A weak password recovery mechanism for forgotten password vulnerability was discovered in Productivity Suite software version v4.4.1.19. The vulnerability allows an attacker to decrypt an encrypted project by answering just one recovery question.

The weakness was presented by Luca Borzacchiello as icsa-25-296-01. The advisory is shared for download at cisa.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-61977 since 10/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-35742). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Password recovery
CWE: CWE-640
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

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Timelineinfo

10/21/2025 CVE reserved
10/23/2025 +2 days VulDB entry created
10/24/2025 +0 days Advisory disclosed
10/24/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: icsa-25-296-01
Researcher: Luca Borzacchiello
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-61977 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-61977
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-329708
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/24/2025 00:16
Updated: 10/24/2025 04:48
Changes: 10/24/2025 00:16 (75), 10/24/2025 04:48 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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