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high 7.8

CVE-2017-5175 json

Advantech WebAccess 8.1 and earlier contains a DLL hijacking vulnerability which may allow an attacker to run a malicious DLL file within t…

published 2018-05-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-14284

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Advantech WebAccess 8.1 and earlier contains a DLL hijacking vulnerability which may allow an attacker to run a malicious DLL file within the search path resulting in execution of arbitrary code.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-045-01 updated cvss 7.1

Advantech WebAccess

  • Advantech WebAccess <= 8.1
    affected: mitigation “Advantech has released a new version of WebAccess to address the reported vulnerability. WebAccess Version 8.2 can be downloaded”

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

1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • ICS-CERT Advantech WebAccess Versions 8.1 and prior.

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Sources

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