CVE-2022-2640: Hornerautomation RCC972 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Config-files of Horner Automation’s RCC 972 with firmware version 15.40 are encrypted with weak XOR encryption vulnerable to reverse engineering. This could allow an attacker to obtain credentials to run services such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Affected products

• Hornerautomation RCC972 Firmware: version 15.40 only

Published 2022-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.