CVE-2017-6028

Summary

CVECVE-2017-6028
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-30 03:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-02-03 13:41:00 UTC
DescriptionAn Insufficiently Protected Credentials issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs Modicon M241, all firmware versions, and Modicon M251, all firmware versions. Log-in credentials are sent over the network with Base64 encoding leaving them susceptible to sniffing. Sniffed credentials could then be used to log into the web application.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-522

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Schneider-electric Modicon M241 - All All All
Hardware Schneider-electric Modicon M241 - All All All
Operating System Schneider-electric Modicon M241 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Schneider-electric Modicon M251 - All All All
Hardware Schneider-electric Modicon M251 - All All All
Operating System Schneider-electric Modicon M251 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Se Modicon M241 - All All All
Operating System Se Modicon M241 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Se Modicon M251 - All All All
Operating System Se Modicon M251 Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple Schneider Electric Modicon Products Weak Cryptography Multiple Security Weaknesses BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs | ICS-CERT MISC ics-cert.us-cert.gov Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 590488 Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability (ICSA-17-089-02)
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