CVE-2018-7842 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-290) affecting all versions of Schneider Electric Modicon M580, M340, Quantum, and Premium controllers. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve elevation of privilege through a brute-force attack on Modbus parameters. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), it presents a severe risk, as it is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m580_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_quantum_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_premium_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.