A Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls issue was discovered in ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card versions 1.8.15 and prior, and VSN300 Wi…

published 2017-08-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16887

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls issue was discovered in ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card versions 1.8.15 and prior, and VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React versions 2.1.3 and prior. The web application does not properly restrict privileges of the Guest account. A malicious user may be able to gain access to configuration information that should be restricted.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-192-03 updated 2017-07-11 cvss 6.5

ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card

ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card <= 1.8.15 ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React <= 2.1.3
affected: mitigation “Users can find more information from ABB's security advisory”

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

1.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

n/a ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

search.abb.com /library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK107045A1977&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/99558
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-192-03
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-7916
NVD CVE-2017-7916

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Summary