9.1
CRITICAL
CVE-2017-16726
Beckhoff TwinCAT AMSF (ADS Man-In-The-Middle Forgery)
Description

Beckhoff TwinCAT supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. ADS has not been designed to achieve security purposes and therefore does not include any encryption algorithms because of their negative effect on performance and throughput. An attacker can forge arbitrary ADS packets when legitimate ADS traffic is observable.

INFO

Published Date :

June 27, 2018, 7:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 9, 2019, 11:25 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.2

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-16726 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Beckhoff twincat
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://download.beckhoff.com/download/Document/product-security/Advisories/advisory-2017-001.pdf Vendor Advisory

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2017-16726 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE ICS-CERT CWE-285
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 31, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://download.beckhoff.com/download/Document/product-security/Advisories/advisory-2017-001.pdf No Types Assigned https://download.beckhoff.com/download/Document/product-security/Advisories/advisory-2017-001.pdf Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-326
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:beckhoff:twincat:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 04, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Beckhoff TwinCAT supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. ADS has not been designed to achieve security purposes and therefore does not include any encryption algorithms because of their negative effect on performance and throughput. An attacker can forge arbirtrary ADS packets when legitimate ADS traffic is observable. Beckhoff TwinCAT supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. ADS has not been designed to achieve security purposes and therefore does not include any encryption algorithms because of their negative effect on performance and throughput. An attacker can forge arbitrary ADS packets when legitimate ADS traffic is observable.
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.11 }} 0.00%

score

0.41691

percentile

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