An Untrusted Pointer Dereference issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3.

Published 8 y ago 2018-01-05 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.1%

percentile 82%

Public exploits

none known

An Untrusted Pointer Dereference issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.3. There are multiple vulnerabilities that may allow an attacker to cause the program to use an invalid memory address, resulting in a program crash.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.08% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`

Affected products

n/a Advantech WebAccess

Classification

Weakness

CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

References

securityfocus.com /bid/102424 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-18-004-02 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-16728
NVD: CVE-2017-16728

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