# CVE-2025-1449: Admin Shell Access Vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager

> Administrators can execute arbitrary commands via unsanitized input in the deprecated Legacy Agentless Device Inventory interface.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7q53-677j-j7m3

## What is CVE-2025-1449?

CVE-2025-1449 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager, published on 31 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager due to insufficient variable sanitizing. A portion of the administrative web interface for Verve's Legacy Agentless Device Inventory (ADI) capability (deprecated since the 1.36 release) allows users to change a variable with inadequate sanitizing. If exploited, it could allow a threat actor with administrative access to run arbitrary commands in the context of the container running the service.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1449?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-1449?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1449 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1449 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1449 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1449 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager, published on 31 Mar 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Rockwell Automation Verve Asset Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1449/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1449/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1449
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1449
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1449

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1449/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.