# Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE record · `CVE-2022-1797`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2022-1797`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 6.8 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** icscert
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Technologies:** [Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5380 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-compactlogix-5380-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation Compact GuardLogix 5380 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-compact-guardlogix-5380-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5480 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-compactlogix-5480-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 5580 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-controllogix-5580-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation GuardLogix 5580 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-guardlogix-5580-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5370 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-compactlogix-5370-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation Compact GuardLogix 5370 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-compact-guardlogix-5370-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 5570 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-controllogix-5570-controllers.md) · [Rockwell Automation GuardLogix 5570 controllers](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/rockwell-automation-guardlogix-5570-controllers.md)
- **Published:** 31 May 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: icscert) at 31 May 2022, 19:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: CompactLogix 5380 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 32.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: Compact GuardLogix 5380 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 32.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: CompactLogix 5480 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 32.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: ControlLogix 5580 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 32.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: GuardLogix 5580 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 32.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: CompactLogix 5370 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 33.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: Compact GuardLogix 5370 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 33.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: ControlLogix 5570 controllers.
  - affected: `unspecified to 33.013, inclusive` (custom)
- Vendor: Rockwell Automation. Product: GuardLogix 5570 controllers.
  - affected: `33.013`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 6.8 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (icscert)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.022, the 82nd percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2022-1797](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1797)
- [NVD: CVE-2022-1797](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1797)

### References from the CNA

- <https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-144-01> (confirm)
- <https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1135559> (confirm)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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