CVE-2025-52579 (GCVE-0-2025-52579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 23:37 – Updated: 2025-07-11 13:55
VLAI?
Summary
Emerson ValveLink Products store sensitive information in cleartext in memory. The sensitive memory might be saved to disk, stored in a core dump, or remain uncleared if the product crashes, or if the programmer does not properly clear the memory before freeing it.
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Emerson ValveLink SOLO Affected: 0 , < ValveLink 14.0 (custom)
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    Emerson ValveLink DTM Affected: 0 , < ValveLink 14.0 (custom)
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    Emerson ValveLink PRM Affected: 0 , < ValveLink 14.0 (custom)
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    Emerson ValveLink SNAP-ON Affected: 0 , < ValveLink 14.0 (custom)
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Credits
Emerson reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
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