CVE-2017-7972

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Published 2017-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.2 and Citect Anywhere version 1.0 that allows the ability to escape out of remote PowerSCADA Anywhere applications and launch other processes.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
schneider-electric	powerscada_anywhere	`1.0`
schneider-electric	powerscada_expert	`8.1`
schneider-electric	powerscada_expert	`8.2`
schneider-electric	citect_anywhere	`1.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.