MGate MB3180/MB3280/MB3480/MB3170/MB3270 Series Protocol Gateways Vulnerability

Published: March 3, 2020

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].

A product vulnerability was identified in Moxa’s MGate MB3180/MB3280/MB3480/MB3170/MB3270 Series Protocol Gateways. In response to this, Moxa has developed a related solutions to address this vulnerability..

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1 Improper Authentication (CWE-287) Allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication by logging in with empty username/password and execute arbitrary actions with administrator privileges on an affected system.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/mgate-mb3180-3280-3480-3170-3270-vulnerability