CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-16731
High (8.8) in hitachienergy ellipse. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-522, CWE-523
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hitachienergy:ellipse