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Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-16672 · published 26 September 2018

CVE-2018-16672: Circontrol circarlife scada information exposure vulnerability

Circontrol · Circarlife Scada

An issue was discovered in CIRCONTROL CirCarLife before 4.3. Due to the storage of multiple sensitive information elements in a JSON format at /services/system/setup.json, an authenticated but unprivileged user can exfiltrate critical setup information.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 1.7% · top 23.5% CWE-200 · Information exposure
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.0
1.7%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References, 4 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in CIRCONTROL CirCarLife before 4.3. Due to the storage of multiple sensitive information elements in a JSON format at /services/system/setup.json, an authenticated but unprivileged user can exfiltrate critical setup information.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/SadFud/Exploits/tree/master/Real%20World/Suites/cir-pwn-life ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45384/ ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://github.com/SadFud/Exploits/tree/master/Real%20World/Suites/cir-pwn-life ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45384/ ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-16672), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.