Schneider Electric Ampla MES 6.4 provides capability to interact with data from third party databases.

published 2018-05-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18568

cvss: 4.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits: 0; none known

Schneider Electric Ampla MES 6.4 provides capability to interact with data from third party databases. When connectivity to those databases is configured to use a SQL user name and password, an attacker may be able to sniff details from the connection string. Schneider Electric recommends that users of Ampla MES versions 6.4 and prior should upgrade to Ampla MES version 6.5 as soon as possible.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-17-187-05 updated 2017-07-06 cvss 6.7

Schneider Electric Ampla MES

Schneider Electric Software, LLC Ampla MES <= 6.4
affected: vendor fix, mitigation “For more information, users of affected products can read Schneider Electric's Ampla Security Bulletin LFSEC00000118 at the following location:”

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

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	1.9	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Schneider Electric SE Ampla MES

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

software.schneider-electric.com /pdf/security-bulletin/lfsec00000118/
vendor-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-187-05
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/99469
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-9637
NVD CVE-2017-9637

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Summary