Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-16718
CVE-2017-16718
Description
Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 supports communication over ADS. ADS is a protocol for industrial automation in protected environments. This protocol uses user configured routes, that can be edited remotely via ADS. This special command supports encrypted authentication with username/password. The encryption uses a fixed key, that could be extracted by an attacker. Precondition of the exploitation of this weakness is network access at the moment a route is added.
Affected products
2- ICS-CERT/Beckhoff TwinCATv5Range: Version 3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- download.beckhoff.com/download/Document/product-security/Advisories/advisory-2017-002.pdfnvdMitigationVendor Advisory
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