8.7

CVE-2024-12169: hitachi energy rtu500

CVSS: 8.7v4.0HighDeferred
Published 25-03-2025Last modified 25-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-12169 is a high (CVSS 8.7) vulnerability in hitachi energy rtu500. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 25-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability exists in RTU500 IEC 60870-5-104 controlled station functionality and IEC 61850 functionality, that allows an attacker performing a specific attack sequence to restart the affected CMU. This vulnerability only applies, if secure communication using IEC 62351-3 (TLS) is enabled.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.39% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Hitachi energy1 product
  • rtu500≥ 13.4.1, ≤ 13.4.4 | ≥ 13.5.1, ≤ 13.5.3 | 13.6.1 | ≥ 13.7.1, ≤ 13.7.4

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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