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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2017-12093 json

An exploitable insufficient resource pool vulnerability exists in the session communication functionality of Allen Bradley Micrologix 1400…

published 2018-04-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3679

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An exploitable insufficient resource pool vulnerability exists in the session communication functionality of Allen Bradley Micrologix 1400 Series B Firmware 21.2 and before. A specially crafted stream of packets can cause a flood of the session resource pool resulting in legitimate connections to the PLC being disconnected. An attacker can send unauthenticated packets to trigger this vulnerability.

Exploit prediction

6.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • talosintelligence.com https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0445 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Talos Allen Bradley

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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