VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-9859

The inverters make use of a weak hashing algorithm to encrypt the password for REGISTER requests.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.13%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products. The inverters make use of a weak hashing algorithm to encrypt the password for REGISTER requests. This hashing algorithm can be cracked relatively easily. An attacker will likely be able to crack the password using offline crackers. This cracked password can then be used to register at the SMA servers. NOTE: the vendor's position is that "we consider the probability of the success of such manipulation to be extremely low." Also, only Sunny Boy TLST-21 and TL-21 and Sunny Tripower TL-10 and TL-30 could potentially be affected

CVSS 3.0: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 1.13% probability · 64th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-327
Affected: sma/sunny boy 3600 firmware · sma/sunny boy 5000 firmware · sma/sunny tripower core1 firmware · sma/sunny tripower 15000tl firmware · sma/sunny tripower 20000tl firmware · sma/sunny tripower 25000tl firmware · sma/sunny tripower 5000tl firmware · sma/sunny tripower 12000tl firmware · sma/sunny tripower 60 firmware · sma/sunny boy 3000tl firmware · sma/sunny boy 3600tl firmware · sma/sunny boy 4000tl firmware · sma/sunny boy 5000tl firmware · sma/sunny boy 1.5 firmware · sma/sunny boy 2.5 firmware · sma/sunny boy 3.0 firmware · sma/sunny boy 3.6 firmware · sma/sunny boy 4.0 firmware · sma/sunny boy 5.0 firmware · sma/sunny central 2200 firmware · +19 more
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.