CVE-2018-7846

Modicon M580 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

29.6%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

A CWE-501: Trust Boundary Violation vulnerability on connection to the Controller exists in all versions of the Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Modicon Quantum and Modicon Premium which could cause unauthorized access by conducting a brute force attack on Modbus protocol to the controller.

Affected vendor

Schneider Electric

Affected product

Modicon M580 Firmware

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-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Published

2019-05-22

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 29.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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