Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-13911 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-13911 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-13911?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.4, published 18 December 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Inductive Automation Ignition.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-13911?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-13911 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-13911?
- Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in Ignition's gateway backup restore functionality, which fails to properly validate or sanitize project resources, scripts, or modules imported from .gwbk backup files. An authenticated user with Gateway Administrator privileges can craft a malicious backup file containing weaponized code that executes during the restore process. The attack requires authentication and administrative access, but on Windows systems running with default NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges or Linux systems running as root, the resulting code execution carries full system privileges. No patch is explicitly mentioned in the advisory; the remediation appears to be changing the service account to run with reduced privileges.
Affected products
- Inductive Automation Ignition
Timeline
- 2025-12-18: disclosed: CVE-2025-13911 published
- 2025-12-18: advisory: CISA alert icsa-25-352-01 issued