What is CVE-2017-9963?

CVE-2017-9963 is a high-severity vulnerability in Schneider-Electric Powerscada Anywhere, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-9963?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

CSRF in Schneider-Electric Powerscada Anywhere

CVE-2017-9963

A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists on the Secure Gateway component of Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.2 and Citect Anywhere version 1.0 for multiple state-changing requests. This type of attack requires some level of social engineering in order to get a legitimate user to click on or access a malicious link/site containing the CSRF attack.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.005 (38.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Schneider-electric Powerscada_anywhere — versions 1.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

cybersecurity@se.com (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cybersecurity@se.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9963?: CVE-2017-9963 is a high-severity vulnerability in Schneider-Electric Powerscada Anywhere, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-9963?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.