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Moxa’s Response Regarding the GRUB2 (BootHole) Vulnerability

Published: September 8, 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 vulnerability has been found in Grand Unified Bootloader version 2 (GRUB2) bootloader that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when the system boots up. This vulnerability is sometimes referred to as BootHole and it can affects the GRUB2 bootloader in Windows and Linuxwhen secure boot is being used. This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID CVE-2020-10713 and the detailed information can be found here.

Moxa has investigated this vulnerability and has determined that none of our products are currently affected.

Moxa's Cyber Security Response Team (CSRT) will keep monitoring the situation and if there are any updates to the status of the vulnerability that affects Moxa's products, an update will be provided immediately.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/moxas-response-regarding-the-grub2-boothole-vulnerability