An Unprotected Transport of Credentials issue was discovered in ABB Ellipse 8.3 through Ellipse 8.9 released prior to December 2017 (including Ellipse Select). A vulnerability exists in the authentication of Ellipse to LDAP/AD using the LDAP protocol. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sniffing local network traffic, allowing the discovery of authentication credentials.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-7915 An Unprotected Transport of Credentials issue was discovered in ABB Ellipse 8.3 through Ellipse 8.9 released prior to December 2017 (including Ellipse Select). A vulnerability exists in the authentication of Ellipse to LDAP/AD using the LDAP protocol. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sniffing local network traffic, allowing the discovery of authentication credentials.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

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Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:20.504Z

Reserved: 2017-11-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16731

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-20T19:29:00.287

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16731

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