CVE-2017-16731

Published Dec 20, 2017

Last updated 25 days ago

Overview

Description
An Unprotected Transport of Credentials issue was discovered in ABB Ellipse 8.3 through Ellipse 8.9 released prior to December 2017 (including Ellipse Select). A vulnerability exists in the authentication of Ellipse to LDAP/AD using the LDAP protocol. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sniffing local network traffic, allowing the discovery of authentication credentials.
Source
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
NVD status
Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
8.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.9
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
5.5
Vector string
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
CWE-523
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-522

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations