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CVE-2017-6028

An Insufficiently Protected Credentials issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs Modicon M241, all firmware versions, and Modicon M251, all firm…

Impact

An Insufficiently Protected Credentials issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs Modicon M241, all firmware versions, and Modicon M251, all firmware versions. Log-in credentials are sent over the network with Base64 encoding leaving them susceptible to sniffing. Sniffed credentials could then be used to log into the web application.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Schneider-ElectricModicon M241 Firmware
through 4.0.3.20
Schneider-ElectricModicon M251 Firmware
through 4.0.3.20

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