CVE-2017-6032

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.017 · 76 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.65% (76th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cisa_csaf_ot · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A Violation of Secure Design Principles issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon Modbus Protocol. The Modicon Modbus protocol has a session-related weakness making it susceptible to brute-force attacks.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

No vendor fix yet; a mitigation is available.

MitigationModicon Modbus protocolcisa_csaf_ot
Enable protection based on an authentication to connect to PLC. This method relies on a feature named Application Password. Once enabled, password-based authentication is required whenever a user connects to change their application program

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · CISA US

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-358USprimaryCWE-657USCWE-657US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Modicon Modbus protocol: all versionsall versionscisa_csaf_otUS
Schneider Electric Software, LLC Modicon Modbus protocolall versionscisa_csaf_otUS
n/a Schneider Electric Modicon Modbus Protocol≤ Schneider Electric Modicon Modbus Protocolenisa_euvdEU
schneider-electric modbus firmwareall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modbus_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

ICSA-17-101-01Schneider Electric Modicon Modbus Protocol2017-04-11icsa · cisa_csaf_otUS
ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cisa_csaf_ot nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-06-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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