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critical 9.0

CVE-2015-6456 json

GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Enterprise before 3.1.5 have hardcoded credentials for a support account, which allows remo…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-6397

cvss
9.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GE Digital Energy MDS PulseNET and MDS PulseNET Enterprise before 3.1.5 have hardcoded credentials for a support account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by leveraging knowledge of the password.

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Vendor advisories

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cisa ICSA-15-258-03 updated cvss 9.0

GE MDS PulseNET Vulnerabilities

  • GE MDS PulseNET <=3.1.3 GE MDS PulseNET Enterprise <=3.1.3
    affected: mitigation “GE’s new version of MDS PulseNET is available at the following location: (http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/Communications/MDS/PulseNET_Download.aspx)”

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

3.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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