Webvisit in Phoenix Contact ILC PLCs offers a password macro to protect HMI pages on the PLC against casual or coincidental opening of HMI…

Published 8 y ago 2018-04-05 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.3

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

5.7%

percentile 93%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

Webvisit in Phoenix Contact ILC PLCs offers a password macro to protect HMI pages on the PLC against casual or coincidental opening of HMI pages by the user. The password macro can be configured in a way that the password is stored and transferred in clear text.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

5.71% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-45586 Phoenix Contact WebVisit 6.40.00 - Password Disclosure · webapps · 2018-10-11

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.3	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N`

Affected products

Phoenix Contact Phoenix Contact ILC PLCs

Classification

Weakness

CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-313-01 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/45586/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/94163 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-8366
NVD: CVE-2016-8366

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Summary