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Moxa’s Response Regarding the PwnKit 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].

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution. This easily exploited vulnerability allows users without the proper access levels to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in its default configuration. 

Moxa has investigated the vulnerability and has determined that it affects some of Moxa's devices. In response to this, Moxa has developed solutions to address this vulnerability. Please refer to the Affected Products and Solutions section below to learn more.

 

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