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CVE-2017-16723

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16723 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting various Phoenix Contact FL COMSERVER and PSI-MODEM/ETH devices running older firmware versions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely by tricking a user into interacting with a malicious link. While the attack complexity is low, it requires user interaction and could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_comserver_basic_232_firmware:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_comserver_uni_422_firmware:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_comserver_bas_485-t_firmware:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_com_server_rs232_firmware:1.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_com_server_rs485_firmware:1.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cert.vde.com / de-de/advisories/vde-2017-004
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-17-341-03
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/102111
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry