An Incorrect Default Permissions issue was discovered in AzeoTech DAQFactory versions prior to 17.1.

published 2017-09-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4238

cvss: 7.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits: 0; none known

An Incorrect Default Permissions issue was discovered in AzeoTech DAQFactory versions prior to 17.1. Local, non-administrative users may be able to replace or modify original application files with malicious ones.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-17-241-01 updated 2017-08-29 cvss 7.1

AzeoTech DAQFactory

AzeoTech DAQFactory < 17.1
affected: fixed in 17.1, mitigation “According to AzeoTech, the newest version (Version 17.1) gives write privileges only to administrators and no longer searches for dlls outside of the application directory.”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

n/a AzeoTech DAQFactory

Classification

Weakness

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

securityfocus.com /bid/100522
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-241-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-12699
NVD CVE-2017-12699

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Summary