A CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability exists in all versions of the Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon Premium which could cause an elevation of privilege by conducting a brute force attack on Modbus parameters sent to the controller.
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0741
- https://github.com/n0-traces/cve_monitor
- https://github.com/yanissec/CVE-2018-7842