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high 7.5

CVE-2017-16728 json

An Untrusted Pointer Dereference issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-7912

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An Untrusted Pointer Dereference issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3. There are multiple vulnerabilities that may allow an attacker to cause the program to use an invalid memory address, resulting in a program crash.

Patch / fix

  • advantech webaccess 8.3

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Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-18-004-02A updated cvss 7.5

Advantech WebAccess (Update A)

  • Advantech WebAccess < 8.3
    affected: vendor fix

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

2.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Advantech WebAccess

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Sources

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