Moxa’s Response Regarding the Libssh Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Published: November 27, 2018

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 libssh’s server-side state machine in versions 0.7.6 and 0.8.4 and prior. This vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933) is due to improper authentication operation and it allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication on the target system.

Moxa has investigated and has not found any products that are affected by these vulnerabilities.

Moxa's Cyber Security Response Team (CSRT) will keep monitoring the situation and if there are any updates to the status of the vulnerabilities and it would affect 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-libssh-authentication-bypass-vulnerability