CVE-2017-3222

Amosconnect vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

7.4%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Hard-coded credentials in AmosConnect 8 allow remote attackers to gain full administrative privileges, including the ability to execute commands on the Microsoft Windows host platform with SYSTEM privileges by abusing AmosConnect Task Manager.

Affected vendor

Inmarsat

Affected product

Amosconnect

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Published

2017-07-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-3222.
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