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CVE-2017-7937
An Improper Authentication issue was discovered in Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard firmware versions 8.3.0 to 8.4.2. An attacker may be able…
Medium4.0EPSS 0.71%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- icscert
Description
An Improper Authentication issue was discovered in Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard firmware versions 8.3.0 to 8.4.2. An attacker may be able to gain unauthorized access to the user firewall when RADIUS servers are unreachable.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard
- affected Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard
References (1)
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-17-131-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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