CVE-2017-7972 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 (redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and v8.2) and Citect Anywhere v1.0. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to escape the remote application environment and execute arbitrary processes on the underlying system. With a CVSS v3 score of 5.5, it has a low attack complexity and requires local network access and low privileges, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:schneider-electric:powerscada_anywhere:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:schneider-electric:citect_anywhere:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.