CVE-2017-16718

Summary

CVECVE-2017-16718
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-27 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:25:00 UTC
DescriptionBeckhoff TwinCAT 3 supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. This protocol uses user configured routes, that can be edited remotely via ADS. This special command supports encrypted authentication with username/password. The encryption uses a fixed key, that could be extracted by an attacker. Precondition of the exploitation of this weakness is network access at the moment a route is added.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-327

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Beckhoff Twincat 3.0 All All All
Application Beckhoff Twincat 3.0 All All All

References

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