AWK Series, TAP Series, and WAC Series Wireless AP/Bridge/Client Vulnerabilities

Published: October 14, 2016

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].

Multiple product vulnerabilities were identified in Moxa’s AWK Series, TAP Series, and WAC Series Wireless AP/Bridge/Client. In response to this, Moxa has developed related solutions to address these vulnerabilities.

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1 Authorization bypass Unauthorized users could download log files and SNMP MIB files by accessing a specific URL.
2 Disclosed OS command Authenticated admins or users are able to execute arbitrary commands by web console.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/awk-series-tap-series-and-wac-series-wireless-ap-bridge-client-vulnerabilities