CVE-2017-6026

critical
Published 2017-06-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

A Use of Insufficiently Random Values issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs Modicon M241, firmware versions prior to Version 4.0.5.11, and Modicon M251, firmware versions prior to Version 4.0.5.11. The session numbers generated by the web application are lacking randomization and are shared between several users. This may allow a current session to be compromised.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
94%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-45918 webapps hardware
Photubias ยท 2018-11-30

Schneider Electric PLC - Session Calculation Authentication Bypass

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-330

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.