Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16731

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-20 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:35:20
Assigner icscert
State PUBLISHED

Description

An Unprotected Transport of Credentials issue was discovered in ABB Ellipse 8.3 through Ellipse 8.9 released prior to December 2017 (including Ellipse Select). A vulnerability exists in the authentication of Ellipse to LDAP/AD using the LDAP protocol. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sniffing local network traffic, allowing the discovery of authentication credentials.