CVE-2017-9860

CRITICAL

SMA Solar Technology - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products. An attacker can use Sunny Explorer or the SMAdata2+ network protocol to update the device firmware without ever having to authenticate. If an attacker is able to create a custom firmware version that is accepted by the inverter, the inverter is compromised completely. This allows the attacker to do nearly anything: for example, giving access to the local OS, creating a botnet, using the inverters as a stepping stone into companies, etc. NOTE: the vendor reports that this attack has always been blocked by "a final integrity and compatibility check." Also, only Sunny Boy TLST-21 and TL-21 and Sunny Tripower TL-10 and TL-30 could potentially be affected

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0224
EPSS Percentile 80.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (39)
sma/sunny_boy_1.5_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_2.5_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_3.0_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_3.6_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_3000tl_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_3600_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_3600tl_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_4.0_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_4000tl_firmware
sma/sunny_boy_5.0_firmware
... and 29 more
Published Aug 05, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026