CVE-2018-17217 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting PTC ThingWorx Platform versions 6.5 through 8.2, stemming from the use of a hardcoded encryption key (CWE-798). This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity, as indicated by its CVSSv3 score of 7.5. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.5, <= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ptc:thingworx_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.