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CVE-2018-7842

CRITICAL

A CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability exists in all versions of the Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon Premium which could cause an elevation of privilege by conducting a brute force attack on Modbus parameters sent to the controller.

Published: May 22, 2019 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-290

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (4)

Vendor Product Version
schneider-electric modicon_m580_firmware *
schneider-electric modicon_m340_firmware *
schneider-electric modicon_quantum_firmware *
schneider-electric modicon_premium_firmware *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-36fw-7hg5-xv5p

A CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability exists in all versions of the Modicon...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 35.04%

Top 2% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 49.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub