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Arm-based Computer Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Published: July 14, 2023

This Alert Is From MOXA

As Industrial IoT (IIoT) adoption continues to proliferate, cybersecurity has become one of the top priorities. The Moxa Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) takes a proactive approach to protect products from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Moxa PSIRT investigates all reports of vulnerabilities that could potentially affect Moxa products. Moxa created a vulnerability management policy to provide guidance and information to our customers in the event of a reported vulnerability. The management policy ensures that Moxa’s customers have steady, unambiguous resources to help them understand how Moxa resolves or mitigates reported vulnerabilities. For any queries, please email [email protected].

Successful exploitation of the improper privilege management vulnerability could allow a local user with normal privileges to change their settings so they have root privileges on affected devices.

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1

Improper Privilege Management

(CWE-269)

 A local user with low privileges can change their settings so they have root privileges.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/arm-based-computer-improper-privilege-management-vulnerability