What is CVE-2017-13698?

CVE-2017-13698 is a high-severity vulnerability in Moxa Eds-G512e. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-11-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-13698?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Moxa Eds-G512e

CVE-2017-13698

An issue was discovered on MOXA EDS-G512E 5.1 build 16072215 devices. An attacker could extract public and private keys from the firmware image available on the MOXA website and could use them against a production switch that has the default keys embedded.

Published 2017-11-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (70.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Moxa Eds-G512e
Moxa Eds-G512e Firmware — versions 5.1

References

www.sentryo.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Switch-Moxa-Analysis.pdf (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-13698?: CVE-2017-13698 is a high-severity vulnerability in Moxa Eds-G512e. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-11-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-13698?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.