CVE-2017-9864
An attacker can change the plant time even when not authenticated in any way.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.51%). 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. An attacker can change the plant time even when not authenticated in any way. This changes the system time, possibly affecting lockout policies and random-number generators based on timestamps, and makes timestamps for data analysis unreliable. NOTE: the vendor reports that this is largely irrelevant because it only affects log-entry timestamps, and because the plant time would later be reset via NTP. (It has never been the case that a lockout policy or random-number generator was affected.) Also, only Sunny Boy TLST-21 and TL-21 and Sunny Tripower TL-10 and TL-30 could potentially be affected
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.51% probability · 74th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- 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
EPSS 1.5% 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.sma.de/en/statement-on-cyber-security.html
- http://www.sma.de/fileadmin/content/global/specials/documents/cyber-security/Whitepaper-Cyber-Security-AEN1732_07.pdf
- https://horusscenario.com/CVE-information/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.sma.de/en/statement-on-cyber-security.html
- http://www.sma.de/fileadmin/content/global/specials/documents/cyber-security/Whitepaper-Cyber-Security-AEN1732_07.pdf
- https://horusscenario.com/CVE-information/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.