Security News > 2021 > April > Rockwell Industrial Switches Affected by More Vulnerabilities in Cisco Software
Industrial automation giant Rockwell Automation has started releasing firmware updates for some of its Stratix switches to address another round of vulnerabilities introduced by the use of Cisco's IOS XE software.
Rockwell Automation regularly releases firmware updates for its Stratix devices to address vulnerabilities introduced by the use of Cisco software.
The latest Stratix advisory released by Rockwell covers a total of 8 vulnerabilities affecting Stratix 5800 managed industrial Ethernet switches.
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Cisco released advisories for these vulnerabilities on March 24, many of which were part of the networking giant's bundled security advisory publication for March 2021.
Rockwell Automation released its own advisory two days later, and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this week also released an advisory to inform industrial organizations about the vulnerabilities.