A hard-coded password issue was discovered in Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) PerformA, Version 2.0.14.0 and prior versions, and KLA Jou…

published 2017-06-30 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15090

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

A hard-coded password issue was discovered in Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) PerformA, Version 2.0.14.0 and prior versions, and KLA Journal Service, Version 1.0.51 and prior versions. They use hard-coded passwords to access the BD Kiestra Database, which could be leveraged to compromise the confidentiality of limited PHI/PII information stored in the BD Kiestra Database.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-17-082-01 updated 2017-03-23 cvss 7.3

ICSMA-17-082-01_BD Kiestra PerformA and KLA Journal Service Applications Hard-Coded Passwords Vulnerability

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) KLA Journal Service <= 1.0.51 Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) PerformA <= 2.0.14.0
affected: mitigation “The updated product versions are scheduled to be remotely updated between April 2017 and October 2017. The updated version numbers to be applied are as follows:”

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

1.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

n/a BD Kiestra PerformA and KLA Journal Service

Classification

Weakness

CWE-259 Use of Hard-coded Password
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSMA-17-082-01
mitigation, third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/97057
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-6022
NVD CVE-2017-6022

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Summary