🛡️ CVE-2023-1617
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper Authentication vulnerability in B&R Industrial Automation B&R VC4 (VNC-Server modules).  This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated network-based attacker to bypass the authentication mechanism of the VC4 visualization on affected devices. The impact of this vulnerability depends on the functionality provided in the visualization. This issue affects B&R VC4: from 3.* through 3.96.7, from 4.0* through 4.06.7, from 4.1* through 4.16.3, from 4.2* through 4.26.8, from 4.3* through 4.34.6, from 4.4* through 4.45.1, from 4.5* through 4.45.3, from 4.7* through 4.72.9.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vc4 4.70.0 4.73.0

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