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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.3

CVE-2017-9640 json

A Path Traversal issue was discovered in Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web prior to 6.5; ALC WebCTRL, SiteS…

published 2017-08-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18571

cvss
6.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.5%
EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

A Path Traversal issue was discovered in Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web prior to 6.5; ALC WebCTRL, SiteScan Web 6.1 and prior; ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu 6.0 and prior; ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 5.5 and prior; and ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 5.2 and prior. An authenticated attacker may be able to overwrite files that are used to execute code. This vulnerability does not affect version 6.5 of the software.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-234-01 updated cvss 6.3

Automated Logic Corporation WebCTRL, i-VU, SiteScan

  • Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) ALC WebCTRL i-Vu <= 6.0 Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) ALC WebCTRL i-Vu SiteScan Web <= 6.5, <= 5.5, <= 5.2 Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) ALC WebCTRL SiteScan Web <= 6.1
    affected: mitigation “ALC applications should always be installed and maintained in accordance with the guidelines found here:”

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-42543)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42543 Automated Logic WebCTRL 6.1 - Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Write webapps, 2017-08-22

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Automated Logic Corporation WebCTRL, i-VU, SiteScan

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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