Inductive Automation Ignition up to 8.1.54/8.3.8 Perspective privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Inductive Automation Ignition up to 8.1.54/8.3.8. It has been rated as very critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component Perspective Module. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-92817. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Inductive Automation Ignition up to 8.1.54/8.3.8. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Perspective Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Ignition Perspective module does not properly validate session privileges when determining Designer-level access. An authenticated user with access to a Vision project could provide their valid Vision session identifier and gain Designer-level privileges. An attacker could exploit these elevated privileges to execute arbitrary code in the context of the Ignition Gateway process.

It is possible to read the advisory at security.inductiveautomation.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-92817 since 09/16/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/14/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 8.1.55 or 8.3.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-100758). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Automation Software

Vendor

• Inductive Automation

Name

• Ignition

Version

• 8.1.0
• 8.1.1
• 8.1.2
• 8.1.3
• 8.1.4
• 8.1.5
• 8.1.6
• 8.1.7
• 8.1.8
• 8.1.9
• 8.1.10
• 8.1.11
• 8.1.12
• 8.1.13
• 8.1.14
• 8.1.15
• 8.1.16
• 8.1.17
• 8.1.18
• 8.1.19
• 8.1.20
• 8.1.21
• 8.1.22
• 8.1.23
• 8.1.24
• 8.1.25
• 8.1.26
• 8.1.27
• 8.1.28
• 8.1.29
• 8.1.30
• 8.1.31
• 8.1.32
• 8.1.33
• 8.1.34
• 8.1.35
• 8.1.36
• 8.1.37
• 8.1.38
• 8.1.39
• 8.1.40
• 8.1.41
• 8.1.42
• 8.1.43
• 8.1.44
• 8.1.45
• 8.1.46
• 8.1.47
• 8.1.48
• 8.1.49
• 8.1.50
• 8.1.51
• 8.1.52
• 8.1.53
• 8.1.54
• 8.3.0
• 8.3.1
• 8.3.2
• 8.3.3
• 8.3.4
• 8.3.5
• 8.3.6
• 8.3.7
• 8.3.8

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