VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-7798

high
Published 2018-11-02 · Modified 2026-05-29
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CVSS v3
8.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

A Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CWE-345) vulnerability exists in the Modicon M221, all versions, which could cause a change of IPv4 configuration (IP address, mask and gateway) when remotely connected to the device.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
schneider-electricsomachine_basic
schneider-electricmodicon_m221-

References

CWEs

CWE-345

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

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