Detcon Sitewatch Gateway, all versions without cellular, Passwords are presented in plaintext in a file that is accessible without authenti…

published 2019-04-02 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15115

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 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

Detcon Sitewatch Gateway, all versions without cellular, Passwords are presented in plaintext in a file that is accessible without authentication.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-136-01 updated 2017-05-16 cvss 8.6

Detcon SiteWatch Gateway

Detcon All SiteWatch Gateway
affected: mitigation “Detcon no longer sells or maintains the SiteWatch Gateway product. They have attempted to send a notification to all SiteWatch users.”

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

1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% 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	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Detcon Sitewatch Gateway

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication
CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-136-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-6047
NVD CVE-2017-6047

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Summary