CVE-2016-5818 is a critical vulnerability affecting Schneider Electric PowerLogic PM8ECC devices running firmware version 2.651 and older, stemming from undocumented hard-coded credentials. This allows unauthenticated attackers to gain complete control over the device with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, as reflected by its CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.651CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:schneider-electric:powerlogic_pm8ecc_firmware:2.651:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.