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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.