CVE-2015-4051

Ipc Diagnostics vulnerability

CVSS

9.0

EPSS

5.7%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Beckhoff IPC Diagnostics before 1.8 does not properly restrict access to functions in /config, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot or shutdown), create arbitrary users, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted request, as demonstrated by a beckhoff.com:service:cxconfig:1#Write SOAP action to /upnpisapi.

Affected vendor

Beckhoff

Affected product

Ipc Diagnostics

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

Published

2015-06-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-4051.
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