CVE-2017-7931 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in ABB IP GATEWAY versions 3.39 and prior, affecting both the gateway device and its firmware. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to access sensitive configuration files and application pages by simply navigating to a specific URL. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community attention and media coverage, indicating its potential risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:abb:ip_gateway_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.