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        "summary": "reporting these vulnerabilities to CISA"
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        "text": "This product is provided subject to this Notification (https://www.cisa.gov/notification) and this Privacy \u0026 Use policy (https://www.cisa.gov/privacy-policy).",
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        "category": "summary",
        "text": "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow full access to all files, processes, and system resources.",
        "title": "Risk evaluation"
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        "category": "other",
        "text": "Critical Manufacturing",
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        "text": "CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.",
        "title": "Recommended Practices"
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        "category": "general",
        "text": "CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage on cisa.gov/ics. Several CISA products detailing cyber defense best practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.",
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        "category": "general",
        "text": "CISA encourages organizations to implement recommended cybersecurity strategies for proactive defense of ICS assets.",
        "title": "Recommended Practices"
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      {
        "category": "general",
        "text": "Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the technical information paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B--Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.",
        "title": "Recommended Practices"
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      {
        "category": "general",
        "text": "Organizations observing suspected malicious activity should follow established internal procedures and report findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.",
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        "text": "No known public exploitation specifically targeting these vulnerabilities has been reported to CISA at this time. These vulnerabilities are not exploitable remotely.",
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          "text": "A security issue exists within the x86 Microsoft Installer File (MSI), which is installed with FTLinx. Authenticated attackers with valid Windows user credentials can initiate a repair and hijack the resulting console window. This allows the launching of a command prompt running with SYSTEM-level privileges, which provides full access to all files, processes, and system resources.",
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          "details": "Rockwell Automation recommends users of the affected software consider installing the Microsoft patch to address the MSI issue. If possible, users should also upgrade to version 6.50 or later. Users of the affected software unable to upgrade to one of the corrected versions should follow Rockwell Automation\u0027s security best practices.",
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