CVE-2017-16728 is an Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability affecting Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a program crash by manipulating the software to use an invalid memory address. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, leading to a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or Metasploit modules, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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.