A vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.…

published 2017-09-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16941

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.2 and Citect Anywhere version 1.0 that allows the use of outdated cipher suites and improper verification of peer SSL Certificate.

Patch / fix

links 2

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-201-01 updated 2017-07-20 cvss 5.3

Schneider Electric PowerSCADA Anywhere and Citect Anywhere

Schneider Electric Software, LLC Citect Anywhere 1.0 Schneider Electric Software, LLC PowerSCADA Anywhere redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.2 1.0
affected: mitigation “Citect Anywhere version 1.1:” schneider-electric.box.com

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

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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

Schneider Electric SE PowerSCADA Anywhere
Schneider Electric SE Citect Anywhere

Classification

Weakness

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

citect.schneider-electric.com /safety-and-security-central/36-security-notifications/9071-security-notification-citect-anywhere
issue-tracking, mitigation, patch, vendor-advisory
schneider-electric.com /en/download/document/SEVD-2017-173-01/
mitigation, patch, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/99913
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-7971
NVD CVE-2017-7971

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Summary