VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-7969

HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.63%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.63%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists on the Secure Gateway component of Schneider Electric's PowerSCADA Anywhere v1.0 redistributed with PowerSCADA Expert v8.1 and PowerSCADA Expert v8.2 and Citect Anywhere version 1.0 for multiple state-changing requests. This type of attack requires some level of social engineering in order to get a legitimate user to click on or access a malicious link/site containing the CSRF attack.

CVSS 3.0: 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.63% probability · 50th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-352
Affected: schneider-electric/powerscada anywhere · schneider-electric/citect anywhere
Source: cybersecurity@se.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 0.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/SEVD-2017-173-01/Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99913Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.citect.schneider-electric.com/safety-and-security-central/36-security-notifications/9071-security-notification-citect-anywhereIssue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/SEVD-2017-173-01/Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99913Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.citect.schneider-electric.com/safety-and-security-central/36-security-notifications/9071-security-notification-citect-anywhereIssue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.