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CVE-2017-16741

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16741 is an information exposure vulnerability affecting PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH 3xxx, 4xxx, and 48xxx Series products running firmware versions 1.0 to 1.32. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can leverage a "Monitor Mode" feature to access diagnostic information. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with a potential impact of limited confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0, <= 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_3005_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, <= 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_3005t_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, <= 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_3004t-fx_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, <= 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_3004t-fx_st_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, <= 1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:phoenixcontact:fl_switch_3008_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0121 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cert.vde.com / en-us/advisories/vde-2017-006
ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-18-011-03
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource