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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: icscert

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Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:49.367Z

Reserved: 2017-02-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6028

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-30T03:29:00.360

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

Link: CVE-2017-6028

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