AeroAdmin 4.1 uses an insecure protocol (HTTP) to perform software updates.

published 2017-07-02 9y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-17834

cvss: 8.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.6%; EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits: 0; none known

AeroAdmin 4.1 uses an insecure protocol (HTTP) to perform software updates. An attacker can hijack an update via man-in-the-middle in order to execute code in the machine.

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Exploit prediction

1.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

tarlogic.com https://www.tarlogic.com/advisories/Tarlogic-2017-001.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests

References

tarlogic.com /advisories/Tarlogic-2017-001.txt
exploit, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-8894
NVD CVE-2017-8894

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