CVE-2017-16718
Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. This protocol uses user configured routes, that can be edited remotely via ADS. This special command supports encrypted authentication with username/password. The encryption uses a fixed key, that could be extracted by an attacker. Precondition of the exploitation of this weakness is network access at the moment a route is added.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium
- Status
- Modified - ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
- Published
- 2018-06-27
- Last modified
- 2024-09-16
- Weaknesses
- CWE-327, CWE-522
Affected products
References
- https://download.beckhoff.com/download/Document/product-security/Advisories/advisory-2017-002.pdf
