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Critical OT Vulnerabilities in Vertiv and Trane Data Center Infrastructure
Integration of Operational Technology (OT) into data center environments has introduced critical vulnerabilities within Vertiv and Trane UPS and HVAC systems. Attackers can exploit weaknesses in industrial protocols such as Modbus, BACnet, and SNMP, alongside insecure remote management interfaces and flawed firmware integrity checks. Successful exploitation enables unauthorized privilege escalation and manipulation of environmental controls or power distribution. This creates a high risk of thermal runaway, physical hardware destruction, and total facility outages, potentially cascading into municipal energy grid instability and significant SLA breaches for cloud and enterprise service providers.
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